Myelination of neural pathways linking the cerebellum and the cerebral cortex:
A) accounts for the decrease in memory abilities of a child.
B) accounts for the increase in fine motor skills, balance, and coordination of a child.
C) is linked to poor verbal skills in a developing child.
D) is linked to dramatic increase in a child's ability to imagine and be creative.
B
You might also like to view...
Which area of the brain is activated whenever a child enacts a particular behavior, but also whenever that child simply observes others around her or him who are carrying out the same behavior?
A. neural ganglia B. medulla oblongata C. cerebellum D. mirror neurons
If his development is normal, newborn baby Moses can be expected to do all but which of the following within his first week of life?
a. Hear a variety of sounds and be particularly sensitive to sounds falling within the frequency of the human voice. b. Discriminate among different tastes. c. Detect his mother's odor. d. Discern his mother's voice from other female voices. e. Differentiate various speech sounds.
Tanenhaus and coworkers' eye movement study presented participants with different pictures for interpreting the sentence, "Put the apple on the towel in the box." Their results showed the importance of in how we understand sentences in real-life situations
a. the cooperative principle b. local connections c. environmental context d. instrumental inferences
Cortisol is an important steroid with many roles. Describe some of these roles and how it carries them out
What will be an ideal response?