Play Vocabulary

Actions that are driven by internal rewards. The motivation to engage in a behavior arises from within because of the inherent satisfaction of the activity rather than the desire for a reward or specific outcome.

• Working memory

• Spatial concepts

• Intrinsic motivation

• Divergent thinking

underlie the capacity to plan ahead and meet goals, display self-control, follow multiple-step directions even when interrupted, and stay focused despite distractions, among others.

• Working memory

• Executive functioning

• Flexible thinking

• Divergent thinking

When a child experiences strong, frequent, and/or prolonged adversity

• Cortisol

• Toxic stress

• Communication

• Abstract thinking​

The body’s primary stress hormone, it surges when we perceive danger, and causes all the symptoms we associate with “fight or flight”

• Impulse Control

• Cerebral cortex

• Synapses

• Cortisol

The small amount of information that can be held in mind and used in the execution of cognitive tasks.

• Reciprocate

• Working memory

• Flexible thinking

• Motor competence

the ability to think about things in a new or different way

• Flexible thinking

• Reciprocate

• Abstract thinking

• Impulse Control

The ability to understand and manage your behavior and your reactions to feelings and things happening around you.

• Spatial concepts

• Spatial concepts

• Self-regulation

• Communication

The relationship between us and objects, as well as the relationships of objects to each other. 

• Spatial concepts

• Synapses

• Executive functioning

• Working memory

The space between the end of a nerve cell and another cell.

• Abstract thinking​

• Cerebral cortex

• Motor competence

• Synapses

The outermost layer of your brain.

• Cerebral cortex

• Cognitive Development

• Synapses

• Cortisol