Michael who is quite familiar with birds sees an airplane

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1.Michael, who is quite familiar with birds, sees an airplane for the first time and calls it a "bird." Jean Piaget, Michael is exhibiting:

Conservation
Accommodation
Reciprocal determinism
Assimilation

2 The period of the zygote lasts about _____, beginning with _____.

3 months; fertilization
2 weeks; fertilization
2 weeks; implantation
3 months; implantation

3. According to ecological systems theory, the behaviors of each family member affect those of othrs. This represents the concept of _____ influences.

Bidirectional
Learned
Predetermined
Universal

4 Which of the following terms represent ideas by Piaget

Schemes
Assimilation
All of the above
Accommodation

5 Theories who believe the child to be a passive reactor to the environment are called:

Naturalistic
Mechanistic
Dynamic
Organismic

6 (3 points) The period of the embryo last from the ____ week through the _____ week of pregnancy

third; tenth
first; third
second; eight
fourth; twelfth

7 (3 points) ______ is the process by which the DNA ladder splits down the middle, replicating itself when each base pairs up with a new mate from the cytoplasm of the cell

Natural selection
Meiosis
Crossing over
Mitosis

8 (3 points) Which of the following terms are not characteristic of information processing theory?

Memory
Menarche
Attention
Thinking

9 (3 points) ______ represents the union between the sperm and the egg

scheme
zygote
teratogens
none of the above

10 (3 points) _____ are developmental characteristics that one can directly observe

Latents
None of the above
Phenotype
Genotype

11 (3 points) Which items represent mental strategies noted in information processing theory?

Elaboration
All of the above
Rehearsal
Organization

12 (3 points) Most babies born to mothers who used cocaine regularly during pregnancy

Came into the world drug addicted
Have abnormally low pitched and dull cries
Are extremely placid and calm
Survived only a few days

13 (3 points) Wanda, who is pregnant, lives in an old apartment building where multiple layers of paint are flaking off the walls. To protect her baby, Wanda should have the paint tested for

Mercury
Lead
Phosphorous
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

14 (3 points) Qualitative changes involve

None of the above
Both
Amount
Type or kind

15 (3 points) Which of the following stages relate to Freud

Oral, Anal
None of the above
trust vs mistrust, Autonomy vs shame
Sensorimotor, Preoperational

16 (3 points) Amniotic fluid

Produces blood cells until the developing liver, spleen, and bone marrow are mature enough to take over this function
Separates the mother's bloodstream from the embryo or fetal bloodstream
Provides a protective cover and nourishment to the prenatal organism
Helps keep the temperature constant

17 (3 points) In Erikson's model, what is critical in promoting healthy personality developmental?

Sex
Tabula Rasa
Crisis
Cognitive

18 (3 points) Teenage mothers are at greater risk than older mothers for prenatal complications because

The risky behavior of many teenagers causes chromosomal abnormalities in their babies
Most teenagers reproductive organs are not yet mature enough to support a pregnancy
Many pregnant teenager do not receive adequate prenatal care
The egg cells or ovum of teenagers are not yet mature enough to successfully unite with the father's sperm cells

19 (3 points) Which of the following represent Piaget's stages

Oral, anal phallic, latency, genital
Trust, autonomy, initiative, industry, identity
Id, ego, superego
sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

20 (3 points) Which of the following statements represent what is generally believed by social scientists?

People help shape their own development
Humans are resilient
All of the above
Knowledge is useful

21 (3 points) Autosomes

Are the 22 matching chromosome pairs in each human cell
Are the 23rd pair of chromosomes
Determine the sex of the child
Contain the sex chromosomes

23 (3 points) Chromosomes

Store and transmit genetic information
Always come in XY pairs
Are inherited from the mother only
Are located outside of the cell nucleus

24 (3 points) In which Piagetian stage of development do infants "think" by acting on the world with their eyes, ears, and hands?

Operational
Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Preformal

25 (3 points) Which of the following represents Freud's contribution to human development?

All behavior is motivated by unconscious dynamics
Sexuality is a major motivating force in human behavior
Industry vs Inferiority
Errors and other unintended behaviors have symbolic meanings

26 (3 points) Your friend is a healthy woman over the age of 35 who is thinking of having her first child. You can tell her that

She is more likely than a woman in her twenties to have a baby born with chromosomal defects
She is likely to have more prenatal complications than a woman in her twenties
She is likely to have a longer and more difficult labor than younger women
Her baby is more likely than a younger woman's baby to be low birth weight

27 (3 points) The most well-known effect of smoking during the prenatal period is

Childhood lung cancer
respiratory distress
low birth weight
allergies

28 (3 points) An expectant mother who ensures that her meat is well cooked and has other family members change the cat's litter box is trying to avoid

rubella
cytomegalovirus
polychlorinated biphenyls
toxoplasmosis

29 (3 points) _____ refers to a limited time span during which a part of the body or a behavior is biologically prepared to develop rapidly and is especially sensitive to its surroundings

range of reaction
a sensitive period
canalization
the age of viability

30 (3 points) A ______ refers to any environmental agent that causes damage during the prenatal period

Pollutant
Chemical hazard
Toxin
Teratogen

31 (3 points) According to Erikson, a combination of adult expectations and children's drive towards mastery creates what stage of development?

Initiative vs. Guilt
Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt
Trust vs. Mistrust
Industry vs. Inferiority

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