PSYC 250 Exam 1 Review

What is any agent that can cause a birth defect or negatively alter cognitive and behavioral outcomes?

How many types of play are there?

Infinite generativity is the ability to use a finite set of symbols to produce infinite sentences and words.

___ motor skills involve large muscle activity and ___ motor skills involve precise movement.

Left hemisphere handles language and logical processing and right hemisphere handles spatial perception.

Which is more dangerous/threatening for development?

Which lobe of the brain is important for cognitive functions and control for voluntary movement or activity?

Correlation can infer causation

At what age does the brain reach 75% of its adult weight?

Which theorist is associated with the conservation of mass theory in development?

What is the best score to obtain on the APGAR?

Where does the US fall in the global ranking of infant mortality?

Erikson has ____ stages, Freud has _____ stages, and Piaget has _____ stages.

Which stage of birth is the longest?

Select one of Piaget's four stages.

What is the belief that inanimate objects have life-like qualities and are capable of action? Who coined this term?

The growth rate in infancy is _____ than the growth rate in early childhood.

The "magic" number of human chromosomes is 46

Kelly is slow to warm up. However, his sister Amy is an easy child. This describes Kelly and Amy's _____.

Which is not one of the key developmental processes?

When thinking about healthy development, which is the best parental style?

Sammy has the sole of her foot stroked. As a result, she fans out her toes and twists foot in? What reflex is this?

What is Erikson's first stage?

What describe a specific time frame when certain abilities should be developed for normal growth?

Which is the best cost and benefits scenario?

What is the use of short and precise words without grammatical markers?

When does development begin and end?

What was Ainsworth's experiment examining attachment style in infants?

Harry Harlow's famous study with rhesus monkeys demonstrated the importance of what factor in infant development?

Thinking about Genie’s case, what does it illustrate about the effects of extreme neglect on development?