Brain Development: From Infancy to Adulthood - Prof. K. Swick, Study notes of Teaching method

Download Brain Development: From Infancy to Adulthood - Prof. K. Swick and more Study notes Teaching method in PDF only on Docsity! How the brain develops The brain has various parts that perform specific function the brain has comprised of trillions of nerves and synapse that form the wiring of the brain through our experience we prune the brain keeping the connections we use and eliminating the ones we do not use there are windows opportunity for best nurturing parts of our brain. For example, the window for language is birth- 10 years The power of early experience We shape and reshape our brains over the life span children who are spoken to regularly and elaborately have larger vocabulary plasticity of the brain is less as we age early intervention with families is important to nurturing children’s brains Emotional development and the infant brain Learning to get our needs met consist, nurturing care encourages that infant to grow and learn healthy emotional development is connected to how our brains are nurtured emotionally The effects of trauma and chromic stress Difficulty with self-esteem difficulty with social relations smaller brain size amygdalia part of the brain is smaller even the parts that develop are clearly under developed