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| 5168079746 | Left Hemisphere | controls right-side motor function | 0 | |
| 5168082174 | Right Hemisphere | controls left-side motor function | 1 | |
| 5168096808 | Corpus Callosum | Both hemispheres are connected by these bundle of nerves. | 2 | |
| 5168098647 | Brain Stem | includes the spinal cord; controls breathing, heartbeat, and blood pressure | 3 | |
| 5168103297 | Cerebellum | controls balance and movement | 4 | |
| 5168105326 | Occipital Lobe | processes visual information | 5 | |
| 5168105327 | Temporal Lobe | active in hearing, language, memory for facts, visual memory, and emotion. | 6 | |
| 5168107342 | Parietal Lobe | processes sensory input and spatial awareness | 7 | |
| 5168107343 | Frontal Lobe | processes complex thoughts, movement, language, working memory and self-control. | 8 | |
| 5168110307 | Neurons | Infants are born with almost all the ____ they'll ever have | 9 | |
| 5168137718 | Synaptogenesis | the development of new synapses | 10 | |
| 5168146071 | Plasticity | the ability of an immature brain to change in form and function | 11 | |
| 5168155784 | Experience-Expectant brain development | occurs when we encounter experiences that our brain expects as a normal event. light sensitivity, most people experience this | 12 | |
| 5168165619 | Experience-Dependent brain development | occurs in response to specific learning experiences. more individual. | 13 | |
| 5168176356 | Myelination | the process of laying down a fatty sheath of myelin on the neurons. Needs to occur for neural messages to be sent successfully | 14 | |
| 5168181341 | Cerebral Palsy | a chronic condition that appears early in development and primarily involves problems with body movement and muscle coordination. | 15 | |
| 5168181342 | Autism | disorder characterized by pervasive impairment in social communication and interaction and by restricted or repetitive behaviors, interest or activities. Range of symptoms and outcomes. | 16 | |
| 5168185762 | Sensation | the information from the environment that is picked up by our senses. Allows child to learn about the world they live in. | 17 | |
| 5168185763 | Perception | the process of understanding what your senses are telling you | 18 | |
| 5168187959 | Mirror Neurons | facilitate imitation, even in newborns. | 19 | |
| 5168208408 | 20/400 | Newborns have this type of vision when they are born | 20 | |
| 5168504312 | Hearing | Sense that is enabled prenatally; exposes to moms voice and heartbeat in the womb. | 21 | |
| 5168512348 | Cross-modal transfer of perception | perception w/one sense enables recognition of that object w/another sense, such as touch. For example, a woman searching for her keys in her purse without looking. Newborns also have this, but only for something they've touched but never seen. | 22 | |
| 5168525951 | Reflexes | patterned, involuntary motor responses that are controlled by the lower brain centers. Premature children are not good at this. | 23 | |
| 5168525952 | Gross motor skills | skills that involve moving large muscles such as arms or legs | 24 | |
| 5168529162 | Fine motor skills | skills that involve small movements such as fingers, lips, tongue or hands. | 25 | |
| 5168529163 | Cephalocaudal | from the head, down | 26 | |
| 5168531164 | Proximodistal | from the torso, outward | 27 | |
| 5168531165 | Depth Perception | The visual cliff experiment was created to see if infants have this, and they do. | 28 | |
| 5168535231 | Cry it out | method where the parent is letting the infant fall back asleep on its own and without the parents help. | 29 | |
| 5168536881 | Falls | account for over 50% of injuries in kids under 1 | 30 | |
| 5168536882 | Infant Mortality | death within the first year of an infants life | 31 | |
| 5168539415 | Sudden Infant Death Syndrome | the unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant (SIDS) | 32 | |
| 5168539425 | Back to Sleep | program that recommends parents to place an infant on its back to sleep. | 33 | |
| 5168540713 | Cortisol | a hormone produced as part of the stress response that prepares the body for a threat or challenge. | 34 |
