PY 232 Ch 1, 2, 3 Review

 Ken is a nurse. Every day he encounters people from many cultures and countries. This is most  likely due to

Between 1800 and 1930, the human population doubled from 1 to 2 billion. What led to this increase in population?

What did Freud believe is the force that drives human development throughout life?

A person's ________ is their genetic makeup, whereas a person's ____ is their expressed characteristics.

According to the theory of genotype>environment, when a person's traits bring out responses from others, this is:

Urie Bronfenbrenner’s __________ theory focuses on __________ that shape human development in the social environment.

___ is an estimate of the extent to which genes are responsible for differences in people in a specific population.

What type of intervention for low-birth-weight neonates involves holding the infant skin-to-skin? What are the benefits?

An individual’s unique genetic makeup is his or her __________.

      The rates of neonatal and maternal mortality are higher in __________ countries than in __________ countries.  

For a recessive gene to be expressed in the phenotype, it must be paired with a __________.

A __________ is the researcher’s idea about one possible answer to the question of interest.

According to Erikson, what is the developmental challenge during infancy?

Monozygotic (MZ) twins have __________ genes in common.

Which woman is most likely to breast-feed her child?

Which measures indicates the percentage of similarity in phenotype among pairs of family members.

As compared to the Apgar scale, the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale differs in that __________.

What term refers to malnutrition, disease, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs that are harmful to the fetus?

Which of the following are components of the microsystem from Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory?

Observational methods have an advantage over questionnaires and interviews in that they involve __________.

Which period of prenatal development is considered the critical period when teratogens can have a profound effect?

A(n) __ is when 1 variable increases, the other increases; a(n) _ is when 1 variable increases, the other decreases.

What is the most commonly used measurement in social science research?

The cultural-developmental model of human development points out that: 

What variable in an experiment is different for the experimental group than for the control group?

Your friend thinks the total fertility rate is the number of births by age. You tell him that the TFR is:

Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory comprises __________ stages.

__________ refers to the consistency of measurements across different occasions.