Understanding the Effects of Maltreatment on Early Brain Development

  • Understanding the Effects of Maltreatment on Early Brain Development

    1.5 Hour Course; Questionnaire
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  • CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING

    Check or fill in the appropriate answer to the following questions. First try to answer from your understanding of the material before referring back to the course. These questions address information specifically stated in the program.

  • 1. The raw material of the brain is the nerve cell, also called the    .  (FILL IN THE BLANK)

  • 2. The first areas of the brain to fully develop are the (CHOOSE ONE).*

  • 3. Brain development, or learning, is the process of creating, strengthening and discarding connections among neurons; these connections between the neurons are called the   .  (FILL IN THE BLANK)

  • 4. Most of the synapse are formed in postnatal development*

  • 5. Researchers use the term * to describe the brain's ability to change in response to repeated stimulation. (FILL IN THE BLANK)

  • 6. The ability to adapt to our environment is a part of normal development. Because the brain adapts to its environment, it will adapt to a negative environment just as readily as it will adapt to a positive one.*
  • 7. When repeated experiences strengthen a neuronal pathway, the pathway becomes encoded and at some point it becomes a (CHOOSE ONE)*

  • 8. Children who have been abused or suffered other trauma may not retain or be able to access explicit memories of their experiences; however they may retain * memories of the physical or emotional sensations which may produce      ,      , or      . (FILL IN THE BLANK)

  • 9. Neuronal pathways that are developed and strengthened under negative conditions prepare children to cope in that negative environment, and their ability to respond to nurturing and kindness may be impaired.*

  • 10. Studies have shown that many infants and children who have been maltreated have abnormal secretions of ___________________   indicating that their bodies' responses to stress have been impaired. (CHOOSE ONE)
       
       
       
                   

  • 11. Children with ___________________  may lose their ability to differentiate between danger and safety, and they may identify a threat in a nonthreatening situation. (CHOOSE ONE)
       
       
       
                   

  • 12. When a child has been exposed to chronic traumatic stress, they may, in a nonthreatening environment, misinterpret nonverbal cues for threats; because of this, their brains are less able to interpret or respond to verbal cues. These children are often mislabeled as learning disabled. This brain response is called… (CHOOSE ONE)
       
       
       
                   

  • 13. For teens who have been maltreated         may be more apparent. Often, these youth have developed brains that focus on survival, at the expense of the more advanced thinking that should happen in a normal developed brains' cortex. (FILL IN THE BLANKS)

  • 14. Children who have been abuse or neglected may not be functioning at their chronological age in terms of their physical, social, emotional, and cognitive skills. List four (4) unusual and or difficult coping behaviors they may display.

  • 15.         has a powerful influence on      development. (FILL IN THE BLANKS)

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