What is a sensitive period? Give an example.
What will be an ideal response?
A sensitive period is a specific time during development that organizing effects produce long-term changes to the individual. An example is early on when the baby develops male or female genitals.
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What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following best describes the relationship between a person's brain size, and his or her intelligence?
A) There is no relationship between brain size and intelligence. B) Brain size is correlated with intelligence, but the relationship is complicated and poorly understood. C) Large brain size is a consistent predictor of high intellectual ability. D) Small brain size is a consistent predictor of high intellectual ability.
According to Piaget, :
a. intelligence is genetic and unfolds through maturation with the passage of time. b. cognition is a simple process that is innate and becomes stronger with experience and time. c. cognitive developments are based upon children's interactions with the environment. d. children are born with all of the schemes they will ever need.
The percentage worldwide of overweight children under age 5 has ________ in the last 5 years
a) decreased slightly b) increased slightly c) increased dramatically d) stayed the same