Motor skills
In development large body movements such as lifting head, moving legs and arms.
What is gross motor movement?
The first stage in Piaget's cognitive development. Claims learning mostly occurs through senses and movement.
What is sensorimotor development?
What is prefrontal lobe?
A patient has incredible difficulty in expressing language suggests damage to this left frontal lobe structure.
What is Broca's area?
In this research changing the independent variable in a controlled setting and allowing for all participants to have equal chance of being part of either group.
What is an experiment?
This hindbrain structure is mostly involved in coordination, balance and voluntary movements.
What is cerebellum?
Small physical movement of hands, fingers and toes. development includes: finger extension, holding a spoon/pencil, tying shoelaces to using sophisticated tools requiring fingers and hands.
What are fine motor skills.
The cognitive ability to understand that things continue to exist even when they are not physically seen.
What is object permanence?
What is acythlcholine?
The left temporal lobe typically is where this language processing structure is located.
What is Wernicke's area?
A 20-year study using a random sample of participants; who respond to surveys and questionnaires are characteristics of these two research methods.
What is longitudinal & self-report interview method?
The rest and digest response is regulated by this subsystem of the PNS.
What is parasympathetic?
Sitting, crawling, standing, and first steps are example of this type of development.
what is gross motor development?
A chemical, drug, virus, or infection that can cause abnormalities in embryonic and fetal development during pregnancy.
What are teratogens?
DSATs is a study acronym for the order of a neural signal in a neuron during action potential. the lower case s stands for this small gap between neurons.
What is synapse?
What is cooing and babbling?
What is correlational?
Between 7-12 years of age, Piaget says children develop logical and tangible thoughts in this stage of cognitive development.
What is concrete operational stage 3?
2 reflexes involved in early development
What are grasping, rooting?
Knowledge, facts and information is this type of intelligence.
What is crystalized intelligence?
The color vision theory which posit that 3 color receptors respond to short, medium and long wavelength light; combining levels of activation to perceive different colors.
What is trichromatic theory (Young-Helmholtz)?
This famous 1970 study supported the critical period hypothesis; neurological ability for syntax require linguistic exposure early and often. They called her the feral child and used a pseudonym to protect her identity.
What is Genie Wiley case study?
A specific survey which can have quantitative measurement.
The process in neuron communication in which the pre synaptic neuron reabsorbs neurotransmitters clearing the synapse.
What is reuptake?
The major gross motor development milestone of a 3 month old includes the ability to do this.
What is hold up their head?
The capacity to reason quickly and think abstractly is this type of intelligence.
What is fluid intelligence?
What are place and frequency theory?
The smallest unit of sound and the smallest unit of meaning in language.
What are phonemes and morphemes?
Research involving two separate age groups (young & old) on sleep and fluid intelligence.
What is cross-sectional?
The mandatory recovery pause shortly after a neuron fires is called this.
What is refractory period?