Cognitive Development

What part of the brain controls involuntary activities? ex. breathing

What part of the brain directs motor activities

What part of the brain controls balance

What releases horomones that control sexual development

What controls simple reflexes that doesnt involve the brain

What controls the way emotions are expressed

What recieves information from other neurons and passes it on to the body of the nerve cell

What processes the info recieved?

What carries info from cell body to dendrites

What is the coating on axons that makes transmission easier

What is the gap between dendrites

To encourage something such as an activity or a process so that brain activity will begin, increase or devleop

A theory made up of sensorimotor period, preoperational period, concrete operations adn formal operations expressed by Piaget

Children learn through senses

The knowledge that objects hav ean existence in time and space

The human use of spoken or written words as a communiction system

Using gestures an dmoving instead of words

Method of assessing somebodys mental state by asking the person to respond with the first word that comes to mind when a word is heard

Same sound used more than once to refer to a person place or event