Parts of the Brain
What is a neuron?
Happens when mothers drink too much alcohol while pregnant and is the LEADING cause for learning disabilities.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
A key time frame in which children are the most receptive to learning specific skills or behaviors.
What is a critical window of opportunity?
Refers to the emotional bond between a child and their caregiver and has a profound influence on a child's social, emotional, and cognitive growth. It is usually a connection to the mother.
What is attachment in child development?
Growth starts from head to toe, and near to far.
What does the developmental sequences cephalo-caudal and proximal-distal mean?
It is crucial for language and reading and is responsible for visual processes.
What is the occipital lobe?
True or False: An exposure to alcohol in children can lead to brain and facial deformities.
True! Children that are a product of fetal alcohol syndrome tends to have minor facial anomalies and flatter/thinner features.
At this age, a baby has 50 trillion synapses and 100 billion brain cells.
How many synapses and brain cells does a baby have at birth?
Proximity seeking, separation distress, having a safe haven, and a secure base are important.
What are key factors in attachment?
P in P.I.E.S & M stands for...
Physical development!
The largest lobe of the brain and is responsible for memory, voluntary movement, and expressive language.
What is the frontal lobe?
The interruption of migration and growth of brain cells in a developing embryo due to the abuse of alcohol, drugs, and even x-rays.
What leads to congenital defects?
True or False: Lost brain cells from the critical window of opportunity are able to grow back later in life.
True! But even at that point it'll be VERY hard to regain those specific brain cells.
Curiosity and willingness to explore, seeking comfort when upset, and developing social skills/positive relationships are part of this attachment style.
What are some characteristics of a secure attachment?
What is the I in P.I.E.S & M?
It controls the functions of the many endocrine glands and regulates growth, metabolism, blood pressure, reproduction, as well as being located at the base of the brain.
What is the pituitary gland?
An overexposure to mercury that can be harmful to neurocognitive development and cause birth defects in an embryo.
What are the effects of eating too much seafood while pregnant?
A baby's brain has so much potential to grow in their first __ years of life. After that the window gets much smaller.
Their first 3 years!
True or False: Secure attachment in childhood allows their adult selves to feel self-worth, have confidence, and empathy.
This area of development assists children in knowing what's right and wrong.
What is moral development?
An area of the brain that is responsible for muscle control, balance, movement, and other complex motor functions.
What is the cerebellum?
The limbic system that consist of the basal ganglia, amygdala, and hippocampus which are responsible for emotion regulation, empathy, and social behavior.
What regions of the brain are most affected by prenatal alcohol exposure?
By this age, a child has around 90% of it's adult brain mass.
5 years old.
Myth or Miracle: Giving in to babies when they cry is spoiling them and will negatively affect them later in life.
Myth! When they cry, babies are telling you what they need.
These areas of development help children understand others, how to interact, and responding to our surroundings.
What is social and emotional development?