| A | B |
|---|
| Amygdala | manages emotions like fear and anxiety, |
| Brain stem | stalk like portion of the brain, connects your brain to your spinal cord, sends messages |
| Cerebellum | maintains balance, posture, coordination, and find motor skills; located in the back of your brain |
| Cerebral cortex | he largest part of the brain; two halves |
| Cerebrum | interprets sights, sounds and touches; regulates emotions, reasoning, and learning; makes up about 80% of your brain |
| Dendrites | projections of a neuron that receive signals from other neurons |
| Executive function | the mental process that enables us to plan, focus attention, remember, and juggle multiple tasks |
| Frontal lobes | largest lobe and controls voluntary movement, speech, and intellec |
| Hippocampus | part of the temporal lobe, brains memory library, stores declarative memories |
| Physical development | growth and development of both the brain and body |
| Process | to form ideas |
| Social development | process by which a child learns to interact with others around them |
| Hypothalamus | regulating hormonal functions, automatic function, hunger, thirst, and sleep |
| Metacognition | having self-awareness about own thinking; knowing what you know and don't know |
| Motor cortex | Motor cortex: part of the frontal lobe; generates signals to direct the movement of the body |
| Spinal cord | relays messages between the brain and the rest of the body |
| Temporal lobe | left and right sides, inside your skull near your temples, play a role in managing your emotions, processing information from your senses, storing and retrieving memories, and understanding language |
| thalamus | referred to as the switchboard of the central nervous system |
| Parietal lobes | receive and interpret signals from other parts of the brain; |
| Neurons | cells in your brain and nerves that can send and relay signals to other neurons |
