Chapter 6

Question 1

Experience-Expectant

Answer 1

–Brain expects certain things to happen in
order to wire properly
–Vision
–Movement
– Language

–Critical/Sensitive period
–Universal/cross cultural
–Canalization

Question 2

Experience-Dependent

Answer 2

–Brain development depends on unique experience
–Type on keyboard
–Working out math problems
– Playing a sport

–Can happen at any time
– Individualized

Question 3

Prefrontal Cortex

Answer 3

• Developing into 20s
• Responsible for:
  – Impulse control
  – Evaluations and judgements

Question 4

Sensation

Answer 4

– stimulation of sensory organs
– Light waves hitting your rods/cones
–Molecules reaching olfactory organs

Question 5

Perception

Answer 5

– your interpretation, making sense of the stimuli
–The round red thing I see is an apple
–That smell is bacon

Question 6

Infant Perception: Visual preferences

Answer 6

• More complex
• Top-heavy
• Face
• Mother over strange
  woman
• Woman over man

Question 7

Reflexes

Answer 7

• Unlearned reactionary responses
• Purpose?
  – Evolutionarily beneficial
• Protection
• Feeding

Question 8

Cephalocaudal Cephalocaudal

Answer 8

from head to tail, as in the long axis of the body.

Question 9

Proximodistal

Answer 9

from the central to the peripheral. The term typically is used in the context of maturation to refer to the tendency to acquire motor skills from the center outward, as when children learn to move their heads, trunks, arms, and legs before learning to move their hands and feet.