Body
The growth trend from head to toe in infants is called this.
What is cephalocaudal?
Nerve cells that store and transfer information.
What are neurons?
The largest structure in the brain, surrounds the brain.
What is the cerebral cortex?
According to Piaget, these are organized ways of making sense of experience.
What are schemas?
This is the mean IQ score.
What is 100?
The growth trend from center of body out, arms and legs before hands and feet, is called this.
What is proximodistal?
This term describes the specialization of the 2 hemispheres of the brain.
What is lateralization?
According to B.F. Skinner, if you want to DECREASE a behavior, you would use ____.
What is punishment?
According to Vygotsky, children learn complex activities through ____.
What are joint activities with more mature individuals of their society?
This includes information that can be briefly held in mind while also monitoring or manipulating it.
What is working memory?
The best estimate of a child’s physical maturity.
What is skeletal age?
This fatty sheath coats the axon of neurons and increases the speed at which messages are sent.
What is myelin?
According to B.F. Skinner, if you want to INCREASE a behavior, you would use ____.
What is reinforcement?
According to Piaget, cognitive adaptation occurs through ____ and ____.
What are assimilation and accommodation?
This is when children apply words too narrowly (Kitty is the child’s cat, no other cat).
What is underextention?
The ability to manipulate objects expands greatly with this fine motor skill.
What is the pincer grasp?
The mechanism that reduces the number of synapses (occurs due to lack of stimulation).
What is synaptic pruning?
This area of the brain is associated with executive functioning and complex thought.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The space between what a learner can do alone and what they can do with guidance/support from a skilled partner.
What is the zone of proximal development?
This is when children apply words too broadly (Kitty for all animals).
What is overextention?
Secretion of ____ becomes greater at night/helps with sleep for infants after 6 months of age.
What is melatonin?
These neurons fire both when we see/hear an action AND when we perform the action.
What are mirror neurons?
When brain damage occurs to the __________, recovery is limited.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Modern research disagrees with Piaget and now shows that development is _____ and _____.
What is gradual and continuous?
This is an INNATE system containing universal grammar.
What is the LAD (language acquisition device)?