Child Development Chapter 9

A child’s environment has a major impact on brain development.

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A baby’s cortex develops very quickly during the first year of life.

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Reflexes are planned actions that come from learned responses.

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The thalamus is the part of the brain that controls sensory information.

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Once a baby’s brain is organized in a specific way, this organization cannot be changed.

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It is not important that toys and learning experiences are age appropriate.

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Myelin is so important to the functioning of nerve cells that scientists believe its absence plays a role in some children’s learning difficulties.

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Infants prefer to look at human faces rather than toys or other objects.

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Infants with below-average intelligence usually have shorter attention spans than those with above-average intelligence.

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Piaget called his last (4th) stage of learning the concrete operations period.

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