Developmental Psychology Midterm Chapter 1 & 2

The fetus that Calista is carrying has reached the age of viability, meaning that it has a change of surviving outside of the womb. Therefore, it can be inferred that Calista is ______ weeks pregnant.

24 to 25

According to the concept of natural selection, the best-adapted individuals

Are more likely to survive and leave the most offspring

Sixty-year-old Betty is in great physical shape. Her bones are strong with no sign of osteoporosis, and her internal organs are in near perfect condition. This means that Betty is young in terms of her____age.

Biological

A___is a group of people who are born at a similar point in history and share similar experiences.

Cohort

Which of the following statements is true regarding the impact of teratogens?

Exposure to teratogens does more damage when it occurs at some points in development than at others.

_____is the interaction of specific measured variation in the DNA and a specific measured aspect of the environment.

Gene x environment (G x E) interaction

Prenatal Development can be divided into three periods. Which of the following is in the correct order from conception to birth?

Germinal;embryonic;fetal

In an experiment, the researcher manipulates the____variable and measures its effects on the_____variable.

Independent;dependent

Dr. Harmon believes that life-span development cannot be studied without considering biological, socioemotional, and cognitive dimensions. Dr. Harmon believes that development is

Multidimensional

Which of the following is in the U.S. Surgeon General's recommendation regarding alcohol intake during pregnancy?

No alcohol should be consumed during pregnancy.

When she was a child, Anna's home was wrecked by a tornado and her neighbor was killed. More than 30 years later, she is still terrified of storms. This is an example of how a ____ event can influence a person's development.

Nonnormative life

______include biological processes such as puberty and menopause. They also include sociocultural, environmental processes such as beginning formal education and retirement.

Normative age-graded influences

Moriah has given birth to a baby girl. Even one month after delivery, she is experiencing very strong feelings of sadness and anxiety. She is so morose that she is having trouble coping with daily tasks. Mariah is most likely suffering from

Postpartum Depression

The___theory describes developmental in terms of unconscious processes, and says that early experiences are important in development.

Psychoanalytic

____age is an individuals, adaptive capacities compared with those of other individuals of the same chronological age.

Psychological

In predicting an adult woman's behavior, it may be more important to know that she is the mother of a 3-year-old child than to know whether she is 20 or 30 years old. This reflects the concept of:

Social age

Alicia is pregnant and a heavy smoker. Which of the following is her baby MORE likely to have than is the baby of a nonsmoker?

Sudden infant death syndrome

Which of the following is true of the stages of childbirth

The first stage is the longest of the three birth stages

The Apgar Scale is a method used to assess the health of newborns. A score of 3 would indicate

an emergency because the baby's survival is in doubt

______is the field that seeks to discover the influence of hereditary and environment on individual differences in human traits and development

behavior genetics

The___theory holds that development can be describes in terms of behaviors learned through interaction with our surrounding.

behavioral/social cognitive

____, the units of hereditary information, are short fragments of DNA. they direct cells to reproduce themselves and to assemble proteins

chromosomes

The____view states that development is the result of an ongoing, bidirectional interchange between hereditary and the environment.

epigentic

Group A received progressive relaxation training prior to test taking while Group B received no treatment. Group A is the _____ group, while group B is the _____ group.

experimental group, control group

Agatha is 83 years old. According to Baltes and his colleagues,________ and________in her capacities will take center stage.

maintenance; regulation of loss

Influences that generally affect a generation-for example, the effect of the Vietnam war on the baby boomers-are considered_______influences

normative history-graded

Marly describes her friend, Gina, as having blonde hair, green eyes, and fair skin with freckles. Marly has described Gina's:

phenotype

_____means the capacity for change

plasticity

Maternal obesity has been linked to all of the following except

stillbirth diabetes extreme preterm delivery cleft plate cleft plate

Two developmental psychologists are having a conversation. One believes in the traditional approach of developmental change; the other believes in the life-span approach. Which of the following issues would they most likely differ on?

whether most developmental change occurs from birth to adolescence or throughout adulthood as well as childhood