This is the age in a child’s development when the process of pruning begins:
A) 2 years old
B) 6 years old
C) 20 years old
What is 2 years?
100
In the “middle years,” ______matter is increasing and ______ matter is decreasing:
A) Grey – White
B) White - Grey
C) White - Black
What is white matter and grey matter?
100
This process speeds up the transmission signals between neurons.
What is myelination?
100
Babies are born with the ability to hear and produce all of these.
What are languages?
100
This is the age range that children learn complex physical skills (athletics & music) more readily:
a) birth to 5 years
b) 6 to 12 years
c) adolescence
What is 6 to 12 years?
200
Size and ___________ both double in a brain during the first year of life.
What is weight?
200
If the skills of throwing a ball or playing a piano are not mastered by this age, they may never develop to their fullest capacity:
A) 6 years
B) 10 years
C) 12 years
What is 12 years?
200
Children in deprived environments lack social, emotional, and cognitive skills:
A) True
B) False
What is True?
200
In brain research, the _________ years refer to the ages 6 to 11 or 12 years. A) early B) middle C) adult
What is middle?
200
The development of this type of brain matter (white/grey) continues to increase into adulthood.
What is white matter or myelination?
300
After gestation, the brain begins to develop at about this time.
A) 9 months
B) 22 weeks
C) 3 weeks
What is 3 weeks?
300
More synapses are not necessarily better – especially within this area of the brain:
A) Thalamus
B) Cortex
C) Hippocampus
What is the cortex?
300
Children who have a stimulating environment with plenty of play show an increase in pruning:
A) True
B) False
What is False?
300
The ___________ lobe processes auditory stimuli which is important in language development. A) temporal B) occipital C) parietal
What is temporal?
300
This grows each time an action is practiced and repeated which leads to a faster and smoother transmission of the nerve signal along the axon.
What is white matter(myelination)?
400
The growth of synapses occurs in the brain to make new connections between neurons.
True or False
What is true?
400
If other language are not learned by this age, the individual will speak with an accent:
A) 12 years
B) 6 years
C) 2 years
What is 12 years?
400
When myelination happens, the child’s senses of vision and hearing could be lost if they miss this:
A) Sensitive periods
B) Pruning
C) Developmental grace
What are sensitive periods?
400
Growth drops off in the parietal and temporal lobes around the age of 12, thus making the ability to learn languages without native tongue accents ____________. A) easy B) difficult C) impossible
What is more difficult?
400
True or False?
If the skills of throwing a ball or playing a piano are not mastered by age 6, they may never develop to their fullest capacity.
What is false? (age 12)
500
In this process, synapses which are not frequently being used are lost:
A.) trimming
B.) pruning
C.) fertilizing
What is pruning?
500
Many skills and competencies are gained more easily during the middle years, when the brain is primed for learning. What is this state called:
A) Maine
B) Equilibrium
C) Developmental grace
What is developmental grace?
500
When providing stimulating activities for the pre-school age child, one of the following is considered to be appropriate:
A) Flash Cards
B) Reading to the child
C) Workbooks
What is reading to the child?
500
Wernicke’s area and Broca’s area are __________to interpret and produce speech. A) important B) irrelevant C) absent
What is important?
500
Even though the brain is ready and eager to learn, growth and the branching of dendrites will not occur without this.