Prenatal
What is a zygote?
What is a fertilized egg?
What is habituation?
What is a decreased response with repeated stimulation?
Which part of the brain continues to develop during teenage years until the age of 25?
What is the prefrontal cortex?
What are the four types of adulthood?
Name the three stages of prenatal development
What are the germinal, embryonic and fetal stages?
What is the process of removing unused synapses called?
What is synaptic pruning?
Where is the idea of adolescence most prominent?
What is the Western world?
Which neurotransmitters decline as we age?
What is dopamine and serotonin?
What five regions of the brain develop during pregnancy?
What is the cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem, pituitary gland and hypothalamus?
What is fine motor coordination and gross motor coordination?
Name three characteristics of adolescence
What is a decrease in parental control, crave of social acceptance, feelings of social disconnection, period of increased substance abuse and depressive symptoms?
Name three ways to prevent physical and mental decline
Name three harmful factors that can negatively affect a baby's prenatal development
What is substance use (alcohol, smoking), stress and malnourishment/maternal illness?
What does slow child development caused by abuse and severe deprivation of care describe?
What are adverse childhood experiences?
What might explain a teen's risk-taking behaviours?
What is the development of the limbic system and nucleus accumbens?
What are the two types of memory, and when do they decline?
What is episodic memory declines from middle adulthood onwards? What is semantic memory declines in the late stages of elderly adulthood?
Name one event/change that occurs in each trimester of pregnancy
First Trimester: What is neural tube developing into central nervous system, synapse development and first electrical brain activity around week 6?
Second Trimester: What is central nervous system matures and is more responsive, almost fully developed brain stem, brainwave activity includes sleep cycles
Third Trimester: What is the brain triples in weight and becomes more grooved?
SURPRISE QUESTION: What are the four social influences that affect sexual behaviour?
What is sexual stimuli, communication, drugs, mass media?
What progresses during puberty?
What are three things that happen to our bodies and brains as we grow older?
What is physical decline, infertility, decreased senses, decreased intellectual abilities, weakened immune system, decreased brain size, fluctuating blood pressure, memory decline, neurotransmitter decline?