Childhood

Front 1

Motor Cortex

Back 1

Controls the movement of the body's voluntary muscles by sending command out to the somatic division of the PNS.

Front 2

Mirror Neurons

Back 2

Fire when an animal performs an action; also fire when an animal observes that same action being performed by another.

Front 3

Broca's Area

Back 3

Production of speech

Front 4

Cephalocaudal Principle

Back 4

The developmental principle that growth occurs in a sequence from head to toe.

Front 5

Growth Hormone Deficiency

Back 5

Absence or deficiency of growth hormone (GH) produced by the pituitary gland to stimulate the body to grow.

Front 6

Motor Development

Back 6

Advances in gross motor and fine motor skills.

Front 7

Childhood Obesity

Back 7

A BMI at or above the 95th percentile compared to the US norms established for children in the 1970s

Front 8

Transductive Reasoning

Back 8

Children believe that two events that happen at the same time are casually related.

Front 9

Egocentrism

Back 9

Inability of children to understand that others do not experience things the same way they do.

Front 10

Magical thinking

Back 10

Erroneous belief that one has control over objects/events or thinking about something will cause something to happen.

Front 11

Animism

Back 11

Objects hade lifelike qualities.

Front 12

Inability to conserve

Back 12

Inability to understand that underlying properties of objects do not change.

Front 13

Centration

Back 13

Tendency to focus on one detail of a situation to the neglect of other important features.

Front 14

Irreversibility

Back 14

Inability to understand that actions can be reversed.