Across
- 3. experience-_________ plasticity: normal wiring of the brain occurs in part as a result of species-typical experiences
- 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
- 10. the formation of a fatty sheath around the axons of neurons that speeds and increases information-processing abilities
- 11. the proliferation of neurons through cell division
- 12. fixed patterns of action that occur in response to particular stimulation
Down
- 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. the process through which excess connections among neurons are eliminated
- 4. the brain is especially responsive to particular input during ________ windows
- 5. the capacity of the brain to be molded or changed by experience
- 6. nutritional practice linked, in part, to the growth of infants' immune systems
- 8. the possibilities for action offered by objects and situations
- 9. ________ systems: a class of theories that focus on how change occurs over time in complex systems