Parts
Controls your vision
What is the occipital lobe?
FAS (abrv.)
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
The time period during development where talents can be learned
What is Critical Windows of Opportunity?
Caused by intrusive and overstimulating parents
What is insecure attachment?
Gross motor development and fine motor development
What is physical development?
The memory center
What is the hippocampus?
Stress hormone
What is cortisol?
Can increase or decrease depending on the baby's early experiences
What is a synapses?
Creates foundation for identity
What is secure attachment?
Also cognitive development
What is Intellectual development?
Determines what part of the brain needs info from the nervous system
What is the brain stem?
Senses fear, danger, and anxiety
What is the Amygdala?
Cuts away what you don't need or use in your brain
What is pruning action?
Causes child to not want parents and to not open up emotionally
What is avoidant attachment?
Involves understanding and responding to our environment
What is emotional development?
Controls basic needs
What is the hypothalamus?
Cause impulsiveness and hyperactivity in developing brain
What is marijuana?
Time where interactive experiences are key to brain development
What is toddler-hood?
Raises preoccupied adulthood
What is ambivalent attachment?
Understanding others and learning how to interact
What is social development?
Receives info from other cells
What are dendrites?
Decreases brain volume of baby if mom uses while pregnant
What is nicotine?
Helps strengthen connections in the occipital lobe
What is visual stimuli?
Causes anxious and confused children
What is anxious attachment?
Knowing right from wrong
What is moral development?