The brain and nervous system continue to develop in middle childhood. Present two ways the
brain and nervous system change. For each change, provide a subsequent cognitive or
behavioral development.
What will be an ideal response?
1. growth spurts of new synapses and increases inthickness of cerebral cortex. These occur between 6
– 8 years of age in the sensory and motor areas. This leads to increases in hand-eye coordination and
fine motor skills. From the ages of 10 – 12, growth is in frontal lobes of cerebral cortex, results in
increase in cognitive planning.
2. myelinization – of frontal lobes and reticularformation – results in selective attention.
3. myelinization of association areas – allows for increasing processing speed.
4. right cerebral hemisphere, lateralization of spatial perception – results in relative right-left
orientation.
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c. "Some individuals' personalities need high levels of autonomic nervous system arousal, and repetitive thoughts and behaviors satisfy that need.". d. "Certain thoughts and actions are the result of abnormal activity in particular brain centers.".
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a. preoperational b. concrete operational c. formal operational d. sensorimotor