Chapter Five

Question 1

How are growth rates, body proportions, and motor skills related during early
childhood?

Answer 1

all three are increasing, growth rate is exponential from three to six, legs are about half of body height, beginning to develop gross and fine motor skills

Question 2

What do children need to learn various motor skills?

Answer 2

increase in brain develop, the beginning of mylenation

Question 3

How does myelination advance skill development?

Answer 3

speeds up neuron signaling which in turn increase reaction and thought time

Question 4

What does the hippocampus do?

Answer 4

linked to memory, processor of memory

Question 5

How is the corpus callosum crucial for learning?

Answer 5

connects the two hemispheres, allows information to pass between halves of brain

Question 6

What is the limbic system?

Answer 6

emtional regualtion system

Question 7

What is the amygdala?

Answer 7

can pick up threat easily, neural centers in limbic system, linked to emotion, registers emotion
ex: fear, anxiety

Question 8

What does the hypothalamus do?

Answer 8

receives signals from amygdala and hippocampus to produce and send hormones