Chapter 1: A Close-Up View of You Vocab

The teen years

• adolescence

• late childhood

• pediatric

A long fiver in a neuron that carries information away from the cell body to the dendrites of other nerve cells or to other cells in the body

• axon

• dendrite

• synapse

The ability of the brain to respond to changes

• brain plasticity

• resilience

• synapse

A person who has a recessive gene for a certain disease and can pass the disease on to his or her children but who does not have the disease himself or herself

• carrier

• recessive gene

• dominant gene

Rod-shaped structures that carry hereditary information from each biological parent to the child

• chromosome

• gene

• DNA

Learned behavior that is passed from generation to generation

• cultural heritage

• social behaviors

• emotional behaviors

The fingerlike extensions of a neuron through which information is sent to the verve cells

• dendrite

• axon

• synapse

A skill that society expects of individuals at various stages of life

• developmental task

• lifespan development

• appropriate development

The unique pattern of genes in all of your cells; made up of approximately three billion base pairs of genetic material

• DNA

• chromosome

• gene

A person’s surroundings and everything in them, including human and nonhuman factors

• environment

• social environment

• household