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Brain
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Development
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100
This is the part of the brain that regulates personality and goal directed behavior.
What is frontal cortex.
100
This disease is a truly genetic disease that a person has from birth.
What is Sickle-Cell
100
This measure is used to determine if a newborns physical well being is healthy.
What is Apgar Scale Measure.
100
According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, how do children need to learn
What is By Doing.
100
This is a diminished response to a stimulus as it becomes more familiar.
What is Habituation.
200
Speech typically produces the greatest electrical activity in which part of the infant's brain.
What is Left Hemisphere.
200
This is the main reason behind sudden infant death syndrome.
What is No Apparent Reason.
200
This chemical seen late in pregnancy will help a baby's nerve cells to grow.
What is Progesterone.
200
Before this age, children show no signs of handedness.
What is 1 Year.
200
Vygotsky viewed this as an intermediate step toward self-regulation of cognitive skills.
What is Private Speech.
300
Brain structures primarily responsible for the initial storage of information seem to develop at this early age.
What is 6 months.
300
Decoding DNA will benefit many people who suffer with life threatening illnesses. First in line treatments of predicted personalized medicine will focus on this life threatening illness.
What is Cancer.
300
A child has a dog at home named spot. While at the park, he sees another dog and calls it spot. This is an example of
What is Assimilation.
300
This phenomena has been linked to teleological explanations because children attribute their own intentions and goals to other living objects.
What is Animism
300
This is a process by which the brain receives, selects, modifies, and organizes nerve impulses.
What is Perception.
400
How long after conception does the production of neurons begin.
What is 10 Weeks.
400
These two chemical hormones have been linked to autism.
What is Progesterone and Oxytocin.
400
When considering preschoolers, can they really provide an accurate account of a witnessed crime, and then follow up with reliable testimony? Yes or No
What is No. However, specific guidelines provided by the interviewer can foster a more accurate recall.
400
Synaptic pruning is a way to weed out the unnecessary connections. Pruning is completed first for brain regions associated with these two functions.
What is Sensory and Motor.
400
These are programs that are the basis for performing particular tasks.
What is Mental Software.
500
This illness weakens the mothers blood-brain barrier and can be passed to the unborn child. It is recommended that the mother has a Cesarean and doesn't breast feed.
What is HIV
500
Preemies who survive the neonatal intensive care unit frequently go on to have developmental disabilities. Unlike, heart or lung problems, this impairment can take years to show up.
What is neurological.
500
Experiments show that these three important features of memory exist as early as 2 and 3 months of age.
What is; 1. an event from the past. 2. over time the event can no longer be recalled. 3. a cue can serve to dredge up a memory that seems to have been forgotten.
500
As children develop, their rules for creating schemes shift from physical activity to
What is functional and conceptual.
500
These are the base pairs that are signified by the names of the molecules from which they're made.
What is A, C, G, T.