First 2 years-Biosocial development

Question 1

Transient exuberance

Answer 1

The great but temporary increase in the number of dendrites that develop in an infants brain during the first two years of life

Question 2

Pruning

Answer 2

When applied to brain development, the process by which unused connections in the brain atrophy and die

Question 3

Experience-dependent brain function

Answer 3

Brain functions depend on particular, variable experiences and therefore may or may not develop in a particular infant

Question 4

Experience-expectant brain function

Answer 4

Brain functions require certain basic common experiences (which an infant can be expected to have) in order to develop normally

Question 5

Head sparing

Answer 5

a biological mechanism that protects the brain when malnutrition disrupts body growth (the brain is the last part of the body to be damaged by malnutrition)