Infants possess greater brain plasticity than older children. What problems come along with this greater amount of plasticity?
What will be an ideal response?
More plasticity also leads to more vulnerability in terms of teratogens, trauma, and deficits in development. Inadequate diet and nutrition are extremely important during this time, and nutritional deficits can actually lead to more synaptic pruning than synaptogenesis.
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Research has shown that most preschoolers
A) do not use the words "think," "remember," or "pretend." B) have a complete grasp of cognitive processes. C) believe that an event can be known without being directly observed. D) often insist that they have always known information they just learned.
The comment, "She died unexpectedly and way before her time," is best associated with Bonanno and Kaltman's (1999) ____ component of grief
a. emotional-regulation b. continuation of subjective meaning associated with loss c. changing representation of lost relationship d. context of the loss