DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
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It is a typical feature of childhood.
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It is evident in both a child’s brain and an adult’s brain.
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It occurs only in people recovering from serious brain injuries.
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It is more evident in some areas of the brain than in other areas of the brain.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Developmental plasticity refers to the evolved and ubiquitous ability to adjust phenotypic development in response to environmental cues experienced in the more plastic early stages of development (Bateson et al., 2004). It is the basis by which multiple phenotypes may be generated from a single genotype.
Detailed explanation-2: -Neuroplasticity – or brain plasticity – is the ability of the brain to modify its connections or re-wire itself. Without this ability, any brain, not just the human brain, would be unable to develop from infancy through to adulthood or recover from brain injury.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer (Detailed Solution Below) Option 3 : Development of children is influenced by their social context.
Detailed explanation-4: -Human growth and development is an orchestrated process of well-recognized and predictable events with five overlapping, yet distinct, pre-adult life history phases: the prenatal, infantile, childhood, juvenile, and pubertal growth phases (Figure 1).