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In middle childhood, increased __________ of the corpus callosum accelerates reaction time for both gross motor and fine motor tasks.

Erikson proposed that early childhood is the stage of initiative versus __________, when children need to learn emotional control without being so tightly regulated that their ability to initiate activities is undermined.

Piaget proposed that during the __________ stage, children become capable of using mental operations, which allow them to organize and manipulate information mentally instead of relying on physical and sensory associations.

When neuronal connections that are used become stronger and faster and the neuronal connections that are not used wither away, what is happening?

Researchers have suggested that the immaturity of the __________ causes an inability to remember the events from the first years of life.

You remember where you were when the current president was elected. What type of memory is this?

For children between the ages of 6 and 11, __________.

__________ is the ability to understand the thinking process in oneself and others.

As an infant begins to crawl, the ability to perceive depth and motion improves dramatically. At what age do most infants have binocular and color vision?

Renée Baillargeon and her colleagues examined infants’ and toddlers’ cognitive development by measuring __________.