Ch8 (8.1)
This structure in the brain helps control balance and body movement.
Answer: What is the cerebellum?
This gland releases growth hormone necessary for development of body tissues.
What is the pituitary gland?
This is the leading cause of childhood death in industrialized nations.
What are unintentional injuries?
These skills involve large body movements like running, jumping, and throwing.
What are gross-motor skills?
This brain structure plays a key role in memory and spatial understanding.
What is the hippocampus?
Between ages 2 and 6, the brain reaches approximately this percentage of its adult weight.
What is 90 percent?
This daily activity supports both body growth and cognitive performance in children.
What is sleep?
These laws require protective devices for children riding in cars.
What are car safety seat laws?
By this age most children can use a knife to cut soft foods.
What is age 5?
Persistent childhood poverty can reduce gray matter in these brain areas important for thinking and memory.
What are the frontal lobes, temporal lobes, and hippocampus?
These growth centers in bones are where cartilage hardens into bone during skeletal development.
What are epiphyses?
Excessive use of these devices is linked to increased sleep disturbances in young children.
What is screen media?
Children from these cultures often show advanced drawing skills due to guided instruction.
What are Asian cultures (e.g., China)?
As children grow, their center of gravity shifts downward improving this ability.
What is balance?
This middle ear infection can lead to hearing loss and developmental difficulties.
What is otitis media?
This bundle of fibers connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
Children often imitate the food choices of these people
Who are people they admire?
Boys often perform better in motor skills requiring this physical quality.
What are power and force?
These early marks made by toddlers represent the beginning of drawing development.
What are scribbles?
Experts recommend preschoolers have at least this amount of adult-structured physical play daily.
What is 60 minutes?
David often became sick due to neglect and poor nutrition. Poor diet can weaken this body system that helps fight disease.
What is the immune system?
David was frequently deprived of food and proper meals. In early childhood, a lack of adequate nutrition can negatively affect this aspect of development.
What is physical growth?
David spent much of his childhood being punished or isolated and had limited opportunities to engage in the type of activity that experts say best supports early motor skill development.
What is play (especially everyday physical play)?
If David had limited opportunities to run, climb, or play outside due to abuse and punishment, he may have experienced delays in developing these large body movement skills.
What are gross-motor skills?
These skills involve small movements like drawing or writing.
What are fine-motor skills?