Psychological development

Question 1

What is a critical period?

Answer 1

Specific period in development when most vulnerable to deprivation of certain environmental factors.
- identifiabe start and end times

Question 2

What is a sensitive period?

Answer 2

where person is more responsive to environmental experiences or learning.

Question 3

Can you still learn outside of sensitive period?

Answer 3

Yes, but experiences need to be stronger to produce same results.

Question 4

Sensitive periods are windows ___.

Answer 4

of opportunity and optimal times for learning to occur.