Parts of the Brain
Neuron Development in Children
The Brain as a Novelty Seeker
Information Processing System
100
It weighs a little more than 3 pounds, about the size of a small grapefruit, shaped like a walnut, and can fit in the palm of your hand.
What is the brain
100
The neurons in this brain make many more connections than those in adults.
What is the child's brain?
100
The brain is constantly scanning its environment for stimuli that causes this to happen.
What is a rush of adrenaline closes down all unnecessary activity and focuses the brain's attention?
100
This part of the brain scans all incoming sensory stimuli.
What is the Thalamus?
200
Is found in the front of the brain and is called the control center as it deals with planning and thinking.
What is the frontal lobe?
200
As the child approaches puberty, the pace slackens and two other processes begin.
What are connections the brain finds useful become permanent, those not useful are eliminated.
200
Our genetic predispostion for survival directs the brain to focus on just one item at a time, cognitve loss can occur during this activity.
What is multi-tasking?
200
This system filters incoming information to determine how important it is.
What is sensory register?
300
Trauma to the this lobe can cause permanent changes to behavior and personality.
What is the frontal lobe?
300
Important periods in which the young brain responds to certain types of input from its environment to create or consilidate neural highways.
What are windows of opportunities?
300
During an interruption of a specific task (studying) this part of memory will lose information.
What is the working memory?
300
The only sense the Thalamus does not screen is found in the Amygdala.
What is smell?
400
These structures in the limbic system are duplicated in the brain hemispheres.
What are the thalamus, hypothalamus, the hippocampus and the amygdala.
400
The terrible twos demonstrates a struggle between two systems.
What are the emotional and rational systems?
400
Bauerlein (2011) suggests that successfully reading complex tests demands these skills that wired students may not be developing.
What are looking for literal and inferred meanings, maintain a train of thought and to hold enough information in working memory, an openness for deep thinking?
400
These types of memory are included in short term memory.
What are immediate and working memory?
500
Recent studies indicate that the role of this part of the brain has been underestimated. Damage slows down and simplifies movement and also could affect some cognitive processes like fine tuning.
What is the cerebellum?
500
Knowing this, it seems illogical that many schools still wait to start new language instruction in the middle school or high.
What is the window of opportunity for language occurs in the early years
500
Studies show that increased physical activity leads to improved academic performance because it encourages the growth of these critical parts of the brain.
What are neurons?
500
This system is the total construct of how we see the world.
What is the cognitive belief system?
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