BRAINZZZZZZ
This is the process between early childhood and adulthood where the brain eliminates extra synapses to make room for new complex information
What is pruning? (synaptic pruning?)
This level of Maslow's Hierarchy includes air, food, water, shelter, warmth, and sleep.
What are the physiological needs? (Level 7)
These four stages of drawing are the origins of the stages of writing. (All four stages in order please.)
What are the:
Basic Scribble (2yrs): simple lines
Shape Stage (3 yrs): draw 6 basic shapes
Design Stage (3-4 yrs): combine basic shapes into complex patterns
Pictorial Stage (4-5 yrs): depict recognizable objects in drawings
This stage in Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development occurs between the ages of 2-7.
What is the preoperational stage?
This theorist emphasized interaction with adults to foster cognitive growth.
Who is Vygotsky?
This part of the brain regulates emotion, memory, stress, fight or flight, and the reward system.
What is the Amygdala?
This level of Maslow's Hierarchy includes affection, intimacy, family, friends, and relationships.
What are belongingness and love needs? (Level 5)
This "traditional" gender typically shows more skills in coordinated movements like balancing, hopping, or skipping, and are more skilled in fine-motor tasks like fastening buttons and printing.
What are females?
This characteristic of the preoperational stage is when the child believes that all people see the world as they do. (ex. talking with hands on telephone not realizing person on other end can't see them).
What is egocentrism?
This type of relationship with a more competent person in a shared activity drives cognitive growth.
What are social relationships?
This part of the brain is in charge of decision making and movement.
What is the frontal lobe?
This level of Maslow's Hierarchy includes knowledge, meaning, and understanding.
What is the need to know and understand level? (Level 3)
This is the age when a child's hand preference becomes clear.
What is age 2?
This characteristic of the preoperational stage is when the child credits inanimate objects with life/ lifelike properties (ex. "The sun is sad because it's cloudy.")
What is Animism?
This is the difference between what a child can do without the support of a more experienced caregiver and what the child can do with that support.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
This part of the brain coordinates voluntary muscle movement and maintains posture, balance, and equilibrium.
What is the cerebellum?
This level of Maslow's Hierarchy includes an appreciation and search for beauty, balance, form, etc.
What is the aesthetic need? (Level 2)
These are some implications of growth and motor development in the classroom: (there are 4 answers given but come up with as many as you can. No pressure :) )
What are:
Eliminating stress; keep relationships healthy
Provide good nutrition at school
Provide exercise
Get expert help for students with motor problems
(these are just some examples)
This characteristic of the preoperational stage is when the child assumes that an object really is what it appears to be. (ex. Halloween mask is a real monster)
What is appearance as reality?
This is a teaching style that matches the amount of assistance to the learners needs.
What is scaffolding?
The brain has reached 80% of its mature weight by age 3, and more than 90% by what age?
What is 5 years old?
This level of Maslow's Hierarchy includes realizing personal potential, self fulfillment, pursuit of talent, personal growth, etc.
What is the self actualization need? (Level 1)
These are some ideas to encourage picky eaters to keep an open mind
What are:
-Allowing children to select healthy foods
-Allowing children to eat food in any order
-Offering new foods one at a time in small amounts
-Never use food as reward or punishment
-Don't force feed everything on plate
This characteristic of the preoperational stage is when the child focuses on one aspect of a problem or situation but ignores other relevant aspects (ex. paying attention to volume of liquid but ignoring the beaker diameter)
What is centration?
This is an intermediate step toward self-regulation of cognitive skills where the child first starts to speak by themselves.
What is private speech?