Neurological Development
Which type of development is concerned with the physical development of organs?
Gross Development
Automatic, involuntary motor patterns are:
Reflexes
Immediate imitation of another speaker is:
echolalia
A burst in synaptic growth that occurs at 8-10 months of age, which changes a child’s perception and production of speech is called:
Synaptogenesis
The important time an infant’s capabilities can be modified and enhanced is called:
The Sensitive Period
Long strings of unintelligible sounds with adult like prosody and intonation
Jargon
Which one does a child experience first? Auditory Maturity or Visual Maturity?
Visual Maturity
The process in which infants react less strongly to a repeated presentation of a stimulus.
Habituation
Newborns predominantly produce these sounds
reflexive and vegetative
What is the FIRST developed portion of the brain that is responsible for basic bodily functioning, such as breathing?
The Lower Brain
Connections and communication of neurons are determined by:
Experience
Which portion of the brain is responsible for higher-level thinking?
The Cerebral Cortex (This is also the last portion to develop)
What is the process of information being stored in long-term memory and maintained by repetition?
Rehearsal
Knowing an object exists even when it is not in your surrounding environment