Week 3: Brain & body

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Across
  1. 3. experience-_________ plasticity: normal wiring of the brain occurs in part as a result of species-typical experiences
  2. 7. a statistical estimate of how much the measured variance on a phenotypic trait among individuals in a given population is attributable to genetic differences among those individuals
  3. 10. the formation of a fatty sheath around the axons of neurons that speeds and increases information-processing abilities
  4. 11. the proliferation of neurons through cell division
  5. 12. fixed patterns of action that occur in response to particular stimulation
Down
  1. 1. inadequate ________ is closely associated with poverty and it leads to a variety of behavioral and physical problems in virtually every aspect of a child’s life
  2. 2. the process through which excess connections among neurons are eliminated
  3. 4. the brain is especially responsive to particular input during ________ windows
  4. 5. the capacity of the brain to be molded or changed by experience
  5. 6. nutritional practice linked, in part, to the growth of infants' immune systems
  6. 8. the possibilities for action offered by objects and situations
  7. 9. ________ systems: a class of theories that focus on how change occurs over time in complex systems