HDFE 360

41. IN the first few years of life, the brain is _____.

A) highly plastic

36. Mounting evidence suggests that _____ is a major contribution to SIDS.

A) impaired brain functioning

7. According to ecological systems theory, interactions between Maring and her child, Tyler, occur in the ____.

A) microsystem

30. Men with even tiny amounts of dioxin in their bloodstream father _____

A) nearly twice as many girls as boys

19. Young people today are more likely to have ___ than at any time in history

A) older relatives

46. An operant conditioning, a stimulus that increases the occurrence of a response is called a

A) reinforce

33. Natural childbirth experts recognized that cultural attitudes about childbirth have ____

A) taught women to fear the birth experience

2. Arnold Gessell____.

A) was among the first to make knowledge about child development meaningful to parents

14. ______ halves the number of chromosomes normally present in body cells

D) Meiosis

21. ______ does not rank well on any key measure of children's health and well being

D) US

16. Which of the following is true about sex differences?

D) Worldwide a greater number of boys are conceived than girls

49. Around 7 to 9 months, infants _____.

D) begin to divide the speech stream into word like units

44. Brenda is unable to breastfeed her baby. Brenda should know that _____.

D) breastfed and bottle fed infants in industrialized nations do not differ

12. Prof. Higgins is concerned about the findings of a longitudinal study on child depression. Higgins is concerned about ____ effects

D) cohort

34. The most common approach to controlling pain during child labor is____

D) epidural analgesia

18. Except for _____, prenatal diagnosis should not be used routinely because of injury risk to the developing organism

D) maternal blood analysis

23. Bart and Nadia are gymnasts. Their 4 yr old son participates in gymnastics.

D) passive correlation

48. Newborn Jaxson makes poorly coordinated swipes toward his giraffe.

D) prereaching

38. Newborn Sam's _____ is nearer to its adult size than any other structure

B) brain

15. Fraternal twins are _____.

B) no more alike than ordinary siblings

29. Maryann is pregnant and works in a smoke filled environment. What can you tell her about smoking

B) passive smoking is related to

13. Christine is 5'7 and has blue eyes. Such directly observable characteristics are called

B) phenotypes

42. Which learning experiences should Cheryl, a caregiver, use to promote experience expectant brain growth?

B) playing a game of peekaboo

32. The mother feels a natural urge to squeeze and push with her abdominal muscles during the _____ stage of labor.

B) second

4. Behaviorism and social learning theory_____

C) offer too narrow a view of important environmental influences

5. Like Piaget's theory, the information processing approach

C) regards people as actively making sense of their own thinking

8. In a ____, each participant has an equal opportunity to display the behavior of interest

C) structured observation

35. Which statement about interventions that support parents and preterm infants is true?

B) Babies who are both pre term and economically disadvantaged require long term intervention

27. _____ increases tenfold from the twentieth week until birth

B) Brain weight

10. DR. Dias' research shows that the death of a spouse in old age is correlated with decline in the surviving partners physical health.

B) The death of a spouse is related to a decline in the surviving partners physical health

28. Which statement about the harm done by teratogens is true?

B) The genetic makeup of the mother and the developing organism plays an important role

6. What did John Bowlby believe?

B) The infant caregiver bond has lifelong consequences

24. Which statement is true of the influence of parents and other caring adults on gene expression

B) They can uncouple favorable gene

45. Which statement about infant learning is true?

C) Babies learn through their natural preference for novel stimulation

3. Dr. Faulkner believes that directly observable events- stimuli responses are appropriate focus of development.

C) Behaviorist

39. _____ are responsible for myelinations

C) Glial cells

47. ____ fire identically when a primate hears or see an action

C) Mirror neurons

43. Rachel is concerned that she might accidentally suffocate her baby is she shares a bed with with. What could you share with Rachel?

C) Parents and infants usually sleep with light covering on hard surfaces

9. Which statement descries a limitation of the clinical method?

C) The findings cannot be applied to individuals other than the participant

50. Newborn Farrah will prob look longer at ____ human and animal faces that _____ ones

C) attractive; unattractive

25. Which statement about blastocyst is true?

C) between the 7th and 9th days

40. The cortical regions with the most extended period of development are responsible for _____.

C) complex thought

11. Dr. Mcbride wants to know if a teachers use of encouragement in the classroom affects the children's self-esteem. To assign children to treatment conditions he should

C) draw the children's name out of a hat

17. Research on sex chromosome disorders show that _____.

C) females who are missing an X chromosome often have trouble with spatial relationships

22. Behavioral genetics is a(n)_____.

C) field devoted to uncovering the contributions of nature and nurture

31. Chinara is RH negative and Savon, her first child, is TH positive. Her doctor will probably

C) give Chinara a vaccine to prevent the buildup of antibodies to the foreign protein

37. Three month old Jefferson will prob listen longer to ____ than to _____.

C) human speech; nonspeech sounds

20. Longitudinal follow up research on the Better Beginnings Project revealed a

C) improved sense of community connection

1. Tammy's father is a gymnastist. When tammy was young her father believed she already showed great promise.

C) nature

26. Jaylnn is in the last half of the month

C) nervous system