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What is the function of the brain stem?
controls heart rate, breathing and sleep wake cycles
What is the function of the frontal lobe?
Personality, behavior, problem solving, judgement, speech, body movement, self-awareness
What is the function of the cerebellum?
coordinate muscle movements, maintain posture, and balance
What is the function of the occipital lobe?
Interprets vision
What is the function of the temporal lobe?
understanding language, memory, hearing, sequencing and organization
What is the function of the parietal lobe?
Interprets language, words, sense of touch, pain, temperature, vision, hearing, sensory, spatial and visual perception
Theorist who believed that children built knowledge through exploration with hands-on activities
Piaget
Theorist who believed that intelligence is the result of complex interactions between children's heredity and experiences
Gardner
Theorist whose eight stages included a social conflict or crisis that must be resolved
Erikson
Theorist who contributed the zone of proximal develelopment
Vygotsky
A principle or idea that is proposed, researched, and generally accepted as an explanation
theory
Principle that development proceeds from the head downward
cephalocaudal
Studying and understanding child development are important parts of teaching young children.
true
Development refers to a change or growth in children
true
Physical development involves the small muscles of the hands and fingers.
true
Maturation refers to a sequence of biological events occurring within the child.
true
