Chapter 5
What period of prenatal development spans from conception to week 2, ending when the fertilized egg implants into the uterine wall?
What is the Germinal Period?
This term refers to the brain’s ability to adapt and change, both physically and chemically, throughout development.
What is Neuroplasticity?
According to Piaget, this cognitive milestone is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they are not available to the senses.
What is Object Permanence?
This standardized test, created by Lewis Terman, takes the mental and chronological age of an individual to get a relative score of their intelligence.
What is Intelligence Quotient (IQ)?
Organogenesis is the process of what?
What is Organ Formation?
What part of the human brain is referred to as the cognitive control center?
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
This term describes the inability to take on the perspective of another person.
What is Egocentrism?
The three dimensions of school readiness include children readiness, the school’s readiness, and the family and ________ supports.
What is Community?
This concept refers to environmental factors that can cause birth defects, abnormalities, or death.
What are Teratogens?
_____________ is the formation of new connections between neurons in the brain.
What is Synaptogenesis?
A child's belief that inanimate objects have feelings and lifelike qualities.
What is Animism?
___________ states that genetic potential sets fixed boundaries, while environmental stimulation will help an individual reach their full intellectual potential.
What is the Range of Reaction?
What condition causes poor physical growth and central nervous system defects when a mother consumes alcohol during pregnancy?
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
Early sensory and motor development includes these three innate infant reflexes.
What are Moro, Stepping, and Babinski Reflexes?
True or False: A preoperational child is unable to understand conservation and reversibility, and cannot create inferences within an ordered series.
What is True?
Alfred Binet’s term for educational exercises designed to strengthen mental skills in low-scoring children.
What is Mental Orthopedics?
What are some examples of teratogens discussed during class?
What are Alcohol, Drugs, Tobacco, or Infectious diseases?
This brain system is responsible for processing emotions, memories, and behaviors (i.e., motivation, learning, and sexual stimulation).
What is the Limbic System?
What type of reasoning does a child use when they draw a relationship between two unrelated events?
What is Transductive Reasoning?
This test was developed as an attempt to create a “culture-fair” intelligence test.
What is Raven’s Progressive Matrices?