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