Describe the impact lack of stimulation has on an infant's brain development.
What will be an ideal response?
Brain development is a multifaceted process that is not a result of maturational or environmental input alone. Infants who are under stimulation, including those who experience child maltreatment or who are reared in deprivation, such as in poor understaffed orphanages in foreign countries, show cognitive and perceptual deficits. Experience influences the physical structure of our brains throughout life. Though infancy is a particularly important time for the formation and strengthening of synapses, experience shapes brain structure at all ages of life even into adulthood.
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In psychology, if the term "abnormal" means "away from normal," what problem doesthis definition present when categorizing someone as being "abnormal"?
A. It does not allow for positive deviations. B. It does not measure standard deviations. C. It does not assume abnormality is negative. D. It does not provide for negative deviation on both sides of average.
The Binet scale was originally developed to __________
a. identify children who might have difficulty in school b. identify gifted children c. measure scholastic achievement d. measure the intelligence of normal children