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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A spend less time fussing and crying
B develop voluntary crying behaviors sooners
C spend more time fussing and crying
D suffer higher rates of SIDS
Question #2
A are modified both by increases in brain maturity and by social pressure
B are easily modified by adult social pressure
C are not modified by social pressure
D do not change during the first 6 months of life
Question #3
A self-regulation, motivation, and optimism
B effortful control, negative affect, and extraversion
C easy, difficult, slow to warm up
D activity level, sociability, and responsiveness
Question #4
A easy, irritable, and depressed
B trusting, wary, and suspicious
C easy, difficult, slow to warm up
D happy, irritable, and unresponsive
Question #5
A perform reflexes elicited by environmental events
B avoid performing actions that lead to unpleasant consequences
C repeat pleasurable actions for their own sake
D perform actions in order to receive reinforcement from adults
Question #6
A sucking, moro and babinski reflexes by the infant
B the rooting and sucking reflexes alone
C infants’ sucking behaviors with the behaviors of their caregivers
D sucking, breathing, and swallowing by the infant
Question #7
A cross-model perception
B integration
C coordinated action
D intermodal perception
Question #8
A a mobile with bright colors and shapes
B a mobile with soft pastel flowers
C a mobile with fuzzy brown teddy bears
D a mobile with black and white patterned abstract shapes
Question #9
A infants prefer low-pitched maternal voices to high-pitched maternal voices
B infants prefer to hear foreign languages more than their own voice
C infants’ hearing is not acute enough for them to demonstrate preferences for particular categories of sound
D infants prefer the sound of their mother’s voice to other women’s voices
Question #10
A smell
B taste
C hearing
D vision
Question #11
A A proper diet
B Hormonal activity
C Experience
D Synaptic pruning
Question #12
A fontanels
B cortexes
C myelin
D neurons
Question #13
A less than 7 pounds, 3 ounces
B 10% less than other babies of the same gestational age
C less than 5 pounds, 8 ounces
D 25% less than other babies of the same gestational age
Question #14
A recover quickly from the effects of withdrawal
B are born blind and deaf
C are addicted to heroin
D are vulnerable to heart defects
Question #15
A a lower rate of stillbirths
B overweight babies
C lower birth weights
D birth defects
Question #16
A marijuana
B tobacco
C alcohol
D caffeine
Question #17
A iron and calcium
B folic acid, calcium, and iron
C salty, sweet, and fatty foods
D Vitamin C and calcium
Question #18
A learned, after birth, to modify their rate of sucking in order to hear the story
B preferred the non-maternal voice to the maternal voice in increasing their sucking response
C cried when they heard the story after birth
D showed no signs of recognizing the story after birth
Question #19
A the establishment of a cyclical pattern of hormone secretion by the pituitary gland
B the presence or absence of the Y chromosome
C the secretion of hormones by the ovaries
D the presence or absence of male gonads, which produce male hormones
Question #20
A cephalocaudal
B proximodistal
C embryonic-fetal
D maturation
Question #21
A umbilical cord
B uterine lining
C ectoderm
D amnion
Question #22
A meiosis
B implantation
C zona pellucida
D cleavage
Question #23
A embryonic, germinal, fetal
B fetal, embryonic, germinal
C germinal, embryonic, fetal
D germinal, fetal, embryonic
Question #24
A culture has influenced the evolution of human biology
B biological changes occured that allowed humans to use language and generate culture
C the human brain is not very much larger than that of our primitive ancestors
D human biological capabilities evolved and then ended with the appearance of human culture
Question #25
A coevolution
B ecological inheritance
C co-construction
D niche construction
Question #26
A a common family environment; their genes
B a sense of identity; a common family environment
C their genes; a common family environment
D their genes; a sense of identity
Question #27
A genotype
B phenotype
C heritability
D variability
Question #28
A Down syndrome
B Turner syndrome
C phenylketonuria
D Klinefelter syndrome
Question #29
A phenylketonuria
B Turner syndrome
C Down syndrome
D Klinefelter’s syndrome
Question #30
A mitosis
B meiosis
C a mutation
D canalization
Question #31
A ontogenetic
B monozygotic
C homozygous
D heterozygous
Question #32
A meiosis; meiosis
B mitosis; meiosis
C mitosis; mitosis
D meiosis; mitosis
Question #33
A ova
B genes
C zygote
D sperm cells
Question #34
A constant over his/her life; developed through interactions with the environment
B observable; inherited
C recessive; domiannt
D developed through interactions with one’s biology; changes over his/her life
Question #35
A somatic cells
B genes
C zygotes
D chromosomes
Question #36
A clinical study
B cross-sectional study
C naturalistic observation
D longitudinal study
Question #37
A reliability
B validity
C replicability
D an experiment
Question #38
A the “hardware” and “software” of intellectual functioning
B how complex behaviors result from the interaction of multiple factors
C how cultural context shapes development
D how genetic factors contribute to development
Question #39
A large eyes relative to the size of the face
B round, protruding cheeks
C a small head relative to the size of the body
D a high, protruding forehead
Question #40
A shares a toy with her father
B bangs blocks together rather than chewing on them
C learns that her pacifier does not provide her with milk
D knows how to grasp her mother’s hair and uses the same grasping movements to grab a toy
Question #41
A psychodynamic
B sociocultural
C behaviorist
D constructivist
Question #42
A guarantee agreement among researchers about what they see
B make it appear that child development experts know everything
C provide systematic organization of many different observations
D allow immediate applications to help children
Question #43
A are thought to regulate bonding in human infants
B have been observed in humans during psychological development but not during physical development
C occur in some animals but not in humans
D are times during which particular events must occur for development to proceed normally
Question #44
A born in original sin
B rebellious in nature
C miniature adults
D inherently good
Question #45
A moral, social, emotional, and physical
B social, physical, emotional, and language
C cognitive, social, physical, and emotional
D cognitive, physical, moral, and social