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What might happen if your hippocampus is damaged?
What is your memory/spatial understanding could be impacted?
Piaget did not believe pre-operational children had the ability to organize objects into classes and subclasses based on similarities and differences (more flowers or more red flowers?
What is hierarchical classification?
Low-cost supplements of __________ substantially reduce the incidence of severe and prolonged diarrhea.
What is zinc?
Excessive TV detracts from vital _______.
What is skill-building play?
Describe the zone of proximal development.
What is the skill level just above where the student currently is?
The hippocampus plays a vital role in __________.
What is memory and spatial understanding?
Children lack ______, the ability to grasp that an object’s physical characteristics remain the same, even when appearance changes
What is conservation?
The leading cause of childhood mortality in industrialized nations is __________.
What is unintentional injuries?
The most extensive U.S. federal program for early intervention with at-risk preschoolers is known as _____.
What is Head Start?
ZPD stands for ____?
This area of the brain is responsible for processing of novel and emotional information.
What is the amygdala?
Piaget called children’s self-directed utterances __________ speech, reflecting his belief that young children have difficulty taking the perspectives of others.
What is egocentric?
In a Dutch study, mothers who pressured their child to eat were more likely to have ______ (under/over/healthy) weight children.
What is underweight?
3 factors strongly associated with childhood injury?
What are poverty, single parenthood, and low parental education.
Vygotsky saw __________ play as the ideal social context for fostering cognitive development in early childhood.
What is make-believe?
At the rear and base of the brain is the __________.
What is the cerebellum?
Piaget believed that through __________, young children practice and strengthen newly acquired representational schemes.
What is pretending?
The most complex self-help skill of early childhood is __________.
What is shoe tying?
Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) prompts the thyroid gland in the neck to release __________, which is necessary for brain development and for growth hormone (GH) to have its full impact on body size.
What is thyroxine?
Vygotsky saw __________ as the foundation for all higher cognitive processes.
What is LANGUAGE?
This region of the brain is linked to balance and control of body movement.
What is the cerebellum?
Which Piagetian principles continue to influence early childhood teacher training and classroom practices (list 3)?
What are discovery learning, sensitivity to children’s readiness to learn, and acceptance of individual differences.
Parents should know that large-scale studies show __________ (high, medium, low, no) correlation between autism and vaccines.
What is no?
X-rays of epiphyses enable doctors to estimate children’s __________.
What is skeletal age?
This is the term for when adults aid learning adjusting support to child’s performance level.
What is scaffolding?