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