Chapters 1-3

• Human Growth & Development
• Year 1

Mesosystem is focused on_________

Macrosystem is the largest system that contains.

1. distant people and places
2. dominant beliefs and ideas
3. culture patterns
4. political and economic systems

Transitions and shifts in one's life takes place in the chronosystem. True or False

1. True
2. False

Exosystem focuses on settings that have an indirect impact of the child. True or False

1. True
2. False

Work, School and policies impact the child indirectly. True or False

1. True
2. False

The microsystem of a child may include what?

What is myelination?

1. The development of a fatty sheath that envelopes an axon.
2. The development of purple matter the envelopes an axon.
3. The development of a fatty sheath that envelopes gray matter.
4. The development of a fatty sheath that envelopes a neuron.

How are neurons defined?

1. Neurons are defined as axons.
2. Neurons are defined as gray matter.
3. Neurons are defined as nerve cells that are specialized to transmit electrochemical signals in the CNS.
4. Neurons are defined as humans.

What does CNS stand for?

1. CNS stands for central neuron system
2. CNS stands for central nervous system
3. CNS stands for cerebral nervous system
4. CNS stands for cortex neuron system

Neurons grow______________

The function of dendrites is to_________

1. transmit impulses toward the cell body from other cells.
2. grow worksheets.
3. transmit nerves to the frontal lobe.
4. transmit blood to the brain.

The human cerebral cortex is divided into_____________.

1. left hemisphere
2. west hemisphere
3. right hemisphere
4. east hemisphere

A major brain development that occurs over the course of childhood and adolescence is the__________________

Short term memory is often called____________.

An example of short term memory is ________________.

Piaget's stage theory of development, progress through 4 stages, name them__________,__________,___________,__________

The Neo-Piagetians in chapter 3 are :

1. Case
2. Gardner
3. Vygotsky
4. Fisher

Kohlberg developed a theory of moral reasoning specifying ____stages in __________levels.

1. 5,3
2. 3,5
3. 6,3
4. 6,6

Kohlberg's work was based on_____________.

1. Case
2. Fischer
3. Mayer
4. Piaget

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