Quiz Chapter 4

The embryonic period lasts about:

6 weeks

What is the approximate age range of the operational stage of development?

7-12 years

Which of the following is NOT a teratogen?

All of the above are teratogens

Which of the following is NOT a teratogen?

All of the above are teratogens. Aspirin, Nicotine, X-ray radiation and Caffeine.

Which of the following is not a teratogen?

All of the above are teratogens. Aspirin, Nicotine, X-ray radiation and Caffeine.

Which of the following is the field which studies the relationship between genes and behavior?

All of the above.

Which of the following is a teratogen?

All of the above. Lead, Syphilis, Rubella and Alcohol.

Nature refers to:

Any biological trait

Nurture refers to:

Any environmental stimulus

During which period does the brain develop at its fastest rate?

Fetal period

When is the most likely time for a miscarriage during pregnancy?

First three months

An after school program might try to get this Piagetian age group to discuss the environmental impact of the U.S.-Soviet cold war.

Formal operational

n this Piagetian stage of development a child will learn that moral values may not fit a one-size-fits-all process.

Formal operational stage

Which of the following children come from two completely separate fertilized eggs?

Fraternal twins

Genes are located in:

Genes reside in all cells

Which reflects the largest unit of analysis?

Genome

Which of the following is the name for the basic "eating reflex" that is present at birth?

Rooting

What is the name given to Piaget's concept that a child has mental concepts formed through its experiences with the world?

Scheme

The name of chemical or biological substances that may cause birth defects.

Teratogen

Weeks 3 to 8 of development are especially sensitive to:

Teratogens

When two variables change at the same time in an experiment it is called a:

Confound

The ability to think in terms of three dimensions, especially with regard to liquid.

Conservation

The development of walking, stranger anxiety and separation anxiety at about 1-year of age leads to the following

Crying near any stranger or during any period in which the caregiver is out of sight

Your father always tells you the same story about when he grew up:

Crystallized intelligence

A period which constitutes especial levels of sensitivity to some forms of input.

critical period

Harlow's monkey experiments identified a(n) _____ during the development of attachment in monkey social behavior.

critical period

Genes are used only once during development and then reside dormant inside your cells.

False

Menopause marks a period of depression in mid-life for women.

False

On average, human children are born ____ weeks after conception.

38 weeks

About what percentage of pregnancies end in miscarriage?

15%

Telegraphic speech is related to which age range?

2 years

When was the Human Genome Project completed?

2003

Now that all the genes in the human genome are identified scientists can immediately identify which gene has which function.

False

The inability to view a situation from another's perspective.

Egocentrism

This stage encompasses the organogenesis period.

Embryonic period

Which of the following is the MOST common measure of infant cognitive abilities?

Habituation to stimuli

Which of the following is LEAST LIKELY to fall into a study by a behavior geneticist?

Learning styles

A type of experimental design used by developmental psychologists which measures the same group of people over time. This design will have a cohort confound.

Longitudinal design

Which of the following is NOT a disease inherited through two recessive genes?

Malarial meningitis

Which of the following BEST identifies where your genes located?

Nucleus

Kohlberg's stage of development in which the individual is concerned with concrete rewards and punishments is called:

Preconventional

In which stage of Kohlberg's model do people become concerned with concrete rewards and punishments?

Preconventional stage

If a child shows a declining response to the same stimulus then it is safe to suggest that the child is:

Remembering the stimulus

What does the general rule of thumb suggest that most children should be speaking by age three?

Three or more word sentences

Newborn infants show a preference for looking at human faces over all other visual stimuli.

True

Two parents with brown eyes can produce a child with blue eyes.

True

Which of the following does NOT represent the typical chimera?

Two eggs are fertilized by sperm from two different men

The time during which humans can learn proper social behavior or language is called a:

sensitive period

Any factor that can cause a birth defect.

teratogen

Heritability means:

the likelihood of inheriting a genetic trait