Human Growth & DevelopmentModule 3 Assignment Option: Early Childhood Brain DevelopmentAlthough there is rapid brain growth prior to age 2, many changes continue to occur within the brain during the early childhood years. With these changes come advancements in children’s development. See if you can identify how brain structures, and related changes, are related to early-childhood development.Three-year-old Carly and her 5-year-old brother Lucas are playing a game with their parents. The goal of the game is to be the first to name the object the parents show the children. Every time, Lucas names the object first. Lucas’s ability to name the object before Carly is due to what brain process? Owen was a little afraid to go to his first day of kindergarten. He was nervous to meet his new classmates. This stress likely caused an increase in his cortisol level, or stress hormone level. What part of the brain was responsible for increasing Owen’s level of cortisol? Four-year-old Abi woke in the middle of the night screaming that there was a monster in her closet. Activity in what part of the brain likely contributed to Abi’s nightmare?

Research shows that different brain-parts are responsible for various functions such as dreams, stress response, and sensation. • Lucas, who is two years older than her sister, is able to identify and name the objects presented in front of him earlier than Carly because of the process known as object recognition. It is the ability to perceive the physical properties (including its texture, color, and shape), semantic attributes, previous experiences, and the use of the objects in the environment. • The part of the brain that is responsible for releasing the cortisol and increasing its level in the blood is the hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis. HPA axis along with the prefrontal cortex and amygdala is said to be responsible for the stress reaction in human beings. In the given case, Owen is stressed about his first day at kindergarten, and the HPA axis would have responded by releasing the cortisol into the blood. • Research on dreaming suggests that the amygdala is active during sleep and it is responsible for dreams with emotional intensity like the nightmare. It implies that the dream would not be emotionally intense in the case amygdala is inactive during sleep. Therefore, we can infer that the amygdala has a major role in Abi’s nightmare.

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Human Growth & Development

Module 3 Assignment Option: Early Childhood Brain Development

Although there is rapid brain growth prior to age 2, many changes continue to occur within the brain during the early childhood years. With these changes come advancements in children’s development. See if you can identify how brain structures, and related changes, are related to early-childhood development.

Three-year-old Carly and her 5-year-old brother Lucas are playing a game with their parents. The goal of the game is to be the first to name the object the parents show the children. Every time, Lucas names the object first. Lucas’s ability to name the object before Carly is due to what brain process?

Owen was a little afraid to go to his first day of kindergarten. He was nervous to meet his new classmates. This stress likely caused an increase in his cortisol level, or stress hormone level. What part of the brain was responsible for increasing Owen’s level of cortisol?

Four-year-old Abi woke in the middle of the night screaming that there was a monster in her closet. Activity in what part of the brain likely contributed to Abi’s nightmare?

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