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