GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
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critical period
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maturation
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Adulthood
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weening
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Detailed explanation-1: -What is the critical period? Also known as the sensitive period, the critical period is a time during early postnatal life when the development and maturation of functional properties of the brain, its ‘plasticity’, is strongly dependent on experience or environmental influences.
Detailed explanation-2: -Critical Period. a specific time in development when certain skills or abilities are most easily learned.
Detailed explanation-3: -Children’s brains develop in spurts called critical periods. The first occurs around age 2, with a second one occurring during adolescence. At the start of these periods, the number of connections (synapses) between brain cells (neurons) doubles. Two-year-olds have twice as many synapses as adults.