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Henry has a mental age of 10. His chronological age is 12. According to William Stern's intelligence ratio, what is Henry's intelligence quotient (IQ)?

120

A person is usually described as 'gifted' if he or she has an IQ in the range of ________.

130-140

By the age of _____, babies can discriminate between fearful and happy faces.

7 months

Schizophrenia and antisocial personality disorder are more likely to occur in infants

?

Which of the following situations best exemplifies the concept of animistic thinking?

A child realizes that his glass of water has more water than similar glasses of other people.

In the context of the strange-situation experiment conducted by Mary Ainsworth and her associates, identify an accurate statement about insecure-avoidant infants.

A majority of the infants in the world are insecure-avoidant. ?

The _____ takes the longest amount of time to develop.

CNS

Identify an accurate statement about the white matter of the human brain.

Development of white matter is completed in the germination stage.

Which of the following is most likely to cause mental retardation, low birth weight, and behavioral problems to a developing baby?

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)

Tevy and Gellert are convinced that their baby will be able to recognize their voices and familiar songs at birth if they begin singing and talking to their baby before it is born. At which stage of prenatal development should Tevy and Gellert expect their baby to be able to respond to these sounds?

Fetal stage

When did theories of intelligence start emerging?

In the early twentieth century

________ can be defined as a set of cognitive skills that includes abstract thinking, reasoning, problem solving, and the ability to acquire knowledge.

Intelligence

Identify an accurate statement about the gray matter of the human brain.

It consists of cell bodies.

Identify an accurate statement about the Kaufman-Assessment Battery for Children or K-ABC.

It included different kinds of problems for children of different ages.

Which of the following is a limitation of Jean Piaget's cognitive development theory?

It omits the social component of cognitive development.

Which of the following people would most likely be considered a prodigy?

Jamie, who has average intelligence, but is extremely gifted in music

According to the Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, who among the following is most likely to have high spatial intelligence?

John, who is an experienced pilot

According to the Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, who among the following is most likely to have high interpersonal intelligence?

Karen, who is a social worker

Which part of the brain is Jamie, a teacher, primarily using when he engages in a verbal interaction with his students?

Left prefrontal cortex

_____ is the ability of certain types of brain waves to work together to allow for coordinated activity in the brain.

Neural synchrony

In the context of brain development in humans, which of the following occurs during adolescence?

Neural synchrony increases.

According to Lawrence Kohlberg, which of the following statements would an individual most likely support when the individual is at the postconventional level of moral reasoning?

People should always follow the rules created by society.

Which of the following is the last stage of prenatal development?

The Fetal Stage

According to the model of temperament developed by Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess, which of the following statements is true regarding the difficult child?

The difficult child is slow to adapt to new situations.

Audrey is a savant who does not have a corpus callosum. Which of the following holds true for Audrey?

The processing of information in the brain's hemispheres is incomplete.

Which of the following is a component of crystallized intelligence?

Using cultural knowledge in problem-solving

Which of the following senses develops to a greater extent after birth as compared to the fetal stage?

Vision

Identify an accurate statement about the development of vision in fetuses and infants.

Vision is the sense that is least developed in the fetus.

Epigenetics is the study of how

a dominant gene becomes resistant to change.

When a blood vessel that serves the brain is blocked, the brain tissue served by that vessel does not receive the oxygen and nutrients it needs, and so the tissue dies. This is referred to as

a stroke.

A teratogen is

any substance that disrupts normal prenatal development.

In the context of intelligence tests, the Kaufman-Assessment Battery for Children or K-ABC differed from the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler tests in that the K-ABC:

assessed different types of learning styles.

A savant is most likely to suffer from ________.

autism

The _____ is the first major organ to form in a developing fetus.

brain

Jean Piaget pioneered theories in _____ development.

cognitive

According to Piaget, children acquire the ability to conserve during the _____ stage of cognitive development.

concrete operational

Clyne and Jeff are waiting for their breakfast while their mother pours milk into their glasses. Jeff tells Clyne that the milk will increase in volume because Clyne's glass is bigger than Jeff's glass. Clyne replies that the volume of milk will not be affected by the size of the glass. This leads to an argument between the two as to who has the bigger serving. In this case, Clyne and Jeff have mastered the concept of

conservation

Harry Harlow said that _____ comfort is as essential a function of nursing in humans as is nutrition.

contact

The absence of a(n) ________ means that information processed in one of the brain's hemispheres cannot be communicated to the other hemisphere. This is a condition sometimes observed in savants.

corpus callosum

Vocabulary tests are measures of ________.

crystallized intelligence

According to the model of temperament developed by Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess, the _____ child is predictable in daily functions, is happy most of the time, and is adaptable.

easy

Veronica's obstetrician tells her that her baby is in the tenth week of development. Bone cells have formed and most of the prominent organs of the baby have already begun to form. The baby is most likely in the _____ stage of prenatal development.

embryonic

Entrance into Piaget's preoperational stage of development is marked by

emergence of symbolic thought.

The _____ stage of development begins at conception and lasts for two weeks.

germinal

With reference to the strange-situation experiment conducted by Mary Ainsworth, _____ infants show odd, conflicted behaviors in the strange situation.

insecure-disoriented

The WAIS and WISC are tests of ________ that were created by ________.

intelligence; Wechsler

A prodigy is one who:

is extremely gifted and precocious in one area.

Some evidence suggests that _____ might offset or even prevent the kind of neural degeneration seen in Alzheimer's and other age-related brain disorders.

neurogenesis

During playtime, Jamal's mother hid his toy under a blanket. Jamal, who is 9 months old, reacted to this by looking for his toy under the blanket. According to Piaget, Jamal has developed

object permanence.

When a child recognizes that objects continue to exist, even when they are no longer in sight, they have developed the concept that Piaget referred to as

object permanence.

According to the research conducted by Vandewater, Shim, & Caplovitz in 2004, heavy amounts of video gaming—but not TV viewing—are associated with being _____ in children.

overweight

With learning and experience certain synaptic connections become stronger, whereas those that do not receive stimulation from the environment die off. This process is known as

pruning.

Mary Ainsworth studied infant attachment with a procedure known as the

strange situation.

Kohlberg (1981) developed the "Heinz Dilemma" to assess

the development of moral reasoning in children.

The defining anatomical feature of Alzheimer's is

the presence of patches of dead tissue in the brain.

If a test is equally valid for different groups and they still score differently on it, it is likely that ________.

the test may be unfair but it is not biased

According to Kohlberg, postconventional moral reasoning is based on

universal moral rules. ?


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