DEP 2004 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Substance Abuse, Neurodiversity, Long-Term Memory
2 Apr 2017
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Genes and environment usually safeguard middle childhood the years from about 6 to. Exercise advances physical, emotional, and mental health: embodied cognition: the idea that human thoughts are affected by body, health, comfort, position, and so on. Childhood overweight: a body mass index (bmi) above the 85th percentile for chil- dren that age. Childhood obesity: a bmi above the 95th percentile. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways that makes breathing diffi- cult. Piaget called cognition during these years concrete operational thought, character- ized by new concepts that enable children to be logical. Productive thinking : concrete thinking arises from what is visible, tangible, and real, not abstract and theoretical. Classification: organizing things into groups/categories according to some character- istic. Seriation: the realization that things can be arranged in a logical series: crucial for using the alphabet or the number sequence. Certain areas of the brain, called hubs are locations where massive numbers of ax- ons meet.
