Lobes
Nervous System and Brain
The Brain
Brain Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
Educational Implications of Brain Research
100
What part of the body are lobes located?
What is the brain.
100
Which part of the nervous system contains the brain and spinal cord?
What is the central nervous system
100
Which part of the brain is located in the middle and is responsible for vision and hearing?
What is the midbrain
100
What is it called when synapses "prune up" when they become irrelevant and useless?
What is Synaptic Pruning
100
Some loss of ________ is both inevitable and desirable
What are synapses
200
Which lobe is responsible for interpreting and remembering auditory information such as music and speech?
What is the temporal lobe.
200
Which part of the nervous system contains all the other nerves in our body?
What is the peripheral nervous system
200
Which part of the brain is responsible for breathing, sleeping, and swallowing?
What is the hindbrain
200
Thanks to ___________ young children have many more synapses than adults do.
What is synaptogenesis
200
Many ___________ nurture normal brain development
What are environments
300

Which lobe is responsible for interpreting and remembering visual information?

What is the occipital lobe

300
Which cells provide transmission electrical and chemical signals that regulate all the processes in our body?
What are Neurons
300
Which part of the brain is responsible for complex mental activities?
What is the forebrain
300
What is the process in which neurons take on particular functions?
What is differentiation
300
Early years are important for learning, but so are the _______ years
What are the later years
400
Which lobe is responsible for language, problem solving, and interpretation of other people's behavior?
What is the frontal lobe
400
Which cells make up About 90% of all the cells in the brain?
What are glial cells
400
Which side of the brain is responsible for language, reading, and mathematical calculations?
What is the left side
400
between birth and age 3, how many times does the brain increase?
What is 3X
400
Both ___________ of the brain work in close collaboration in virtually all thinking and learning tasks
What are hemispheres
500
What system is involved with learning,memory,emotion,and motivation?
What is the limbic system
500
Glial cells play a critical role in what process?
What is the learning process
500
What connects the left and the right side of the brain?
What is the corpus callosum
500
What is the process of coating neural axons called?
What is myelination
500
What can help us refine theories of learning and cognition, but can't tell us much about what to teach or how best to teach.
What is brain research
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