Exam 4: Human Development

___ age is the number of years one has lived since birth and ___ age is the individual's ability to adapt to a changing environment.

Eoghan has curly red hair and freckles.What would a geneticist call these traits?

Grace is 84 years old and still living at home and caring for herself.She does all her own shopping,banking,cleaning,and cooking.Her grandson,however,argues that she is going to fall one of these days and that she should go into an old age home.Who is likely in the right?

Your textbook discusses the fact that infants of the Kipsigis people encourage motor skills such as sitting up,standing,and walking shortly after birth.As a result,their children achieve motor development milestones approximately a month earlier than children raised in North America.What does this suggest about motor skill development?

Dynamic systems approach suggests ___.

The fact that a baby's head is larger in proportion to their body is an example of

In what stage is a pregnant woman most vulnerable to miscarriage?

How is a sequential design different from a longitudinal design?

Provide two examples of secondary sex characteristics.

Tia didn't see anything wrong with smoking marijuana throughout her pregnancy.She was aware of the warnings about tobacco smoke,but she had NEVER heard any warnings about marijuana and mistakenly thought it was safe.What might she see in her child because of her marijuana use?

A person's genetic code or inheritance is referred to as their

Dr.Abrams is investigating how social perspective-taking skills change from middle childhood to adolescence,and he needs a developmental research design to do so.Which of the following is NOT designed to answer his question?

Mental frameworks or structures that influence our understanding and thinking about the world are called ___.

Which research method was used by Piaget to formulate his theory of cognitive development?

Jessie and Sarah are 6-year-old twins.Their mother gives each child one scoop of macaroni for lunch.What must she be careful to do,and why?

Which of the following people used the "Strange Situation" study to examine the relationship between attachment styles and babies' abilities to cope with stressful situations?

Warren is a taxi driver and is suddenly flagged down by a pregnant woman who is holding her stomach.He stops,and she waddles over and climbs into the backseat.Suddenly she screams in pain,and then tells him to speed to the hospital.If Warren is in Kohlberg's preconventional stage of moral development,what is he likely to say?

Juanita has been watching Bugs Bunny on TV while mom prepares lunch in the kitchen.As they sit down to lunch,Juanita says to her mother "Wasn't that a funny thing that Bugs did?" When her mother says she didn't see the cartoon,Juanita gets upset and insists that her mother must have seen it,because it was on the TV.Which stage of development is Juanita at?

The fourth day following conception,the zygote is referred to as a ___.

Weeks 2-8 after conception is referred to as the ___ of prenatal development.