List Three Differences Among Children by Birth Order

question 9

Essay

List three differences among children by birth order. If they exist, how can these differences be explained? What does Freeze and others mean when they claim that gender, class, or race are better predictors of social attitudes than birth order?

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Definitions:

Amygdala

A structure in the brain that is involved in emotional processing, especially fear and pleasure.

Memory Consolidation

The process by which short-term memories are integrated and stabilized into long-term storage in the brain.

Hippocampus

A major component of the brain of humans and other vertebrates, playing crucial roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory, and in spatial memory that enables navigation.

Cerebral Cortex

The outer layer of the cerebrum in the brain, playing a key role in memory, attention, perception, cognition, awareness, thought, language, and consciousness.