Chat with AIExam 6: Physical Development: the Brain and the Body
Exam 1: Introduction: Issues and Themes in Child Development78 Questions
Exam 2: Theories of Development84 Questions
Exam 3: How We Study Development77 Questions
Exam 4: How Children Develop: Nature Through Nurture75 Questions
Exam 5: Prenatal Development, the Newborn, and the Transition to Parenthood83 Questions
Exam 6: Physical Development: the Brain and the Body97 Questions
Exam 7: Cognitive Development92 Questions
Exam 8: Intelligence and Academic Achievement91 Questions
Exam 9: Language Development83 Questions
Exam 10: Emotional Development and Attachment100 Questions
Exam 11: Identity: the Self, Gender, and Moral Development89 Questions
Exam 12: Social Development: Social Cognition and Peer Relationships87 Questions
Exam 13: Families93 Questions
Exam 14: Beyond Family and School: Activities, Media and the Natural World89 Questions
Exam 15: Health, Well-Being, and Resilience85 Questions
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Mothers are urged to wait to introduce solid foods into an infant's diet because doing this too early has been associated with development of allergies later in the child's life.
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(41) Elbert et al. found that the area of the right side of the brain that controls the left hand has many more synaptic connections than the same area of the left side of the brain in violinists (because they constantly use the fingers of the left hand). What type of brain development explains why this occurs?
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(39) There is some evidence that massage can increase your body's ability to fight off the effects of some diseases.
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(39) The brain is divided down the middle, from front to back, into two
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(35) The most effective programs to prevent eating disorders are ones that
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(37) Which of the following describes the proximodistal direction of myelination of motor neurons?
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(33) The ___________________ controls our basic functions, such as breathing, heartbeat, and blood pressure.
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(42) If a child younger than the age of about 4 or 5 were to have a large portion of their brain removed in a necessary surgery
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(41) The teen pregnancy rate has been coming down in the United States, but is still much higher than in other Western industrialized nations. What accounts for this difference?
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(45) Infants are born with almost all the neurons they will ever have.
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(29) Explain what the plasticity of infants' brains refers to. Why is it an advantage for human infants to have a brain that is "plastic"? Describe the process of synaptogenesis and synaptic pruning and how these strengthen the brain.
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(34) The motor cortex is activated in the same way if we kick an object or simply read the word "kick".
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