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are substances and conditions that can impair and result in birth defects or even death.
Definition
teterogens
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According to Erikson, an infant experiences:
Definition
Trust vs Mistrust
Term
Trisomy-21 is also called:
Definition
down syndrome
Term
_______ is a quick assessment of newborn's heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, color, and reflexes that is completed twice.
Definition
Apgar scales
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Which of the following is the age of viability?
Definition
22 week old fetus
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Johnny's wife is pregnant but he is also experiencing the same symptoms she is, weight gain, mood swings, morning sickness. The term that best describes this is:
Definition
couvade
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Johnny's wife is pregnant but he is also experiencing the same symptoms she is, weight gain, mood swings, morning sickness. The term that best describes this is:
Definition
post partum
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What is a type of care used in which the mother of a low birth weight infant holds the baby between her breasts and the baby hears her mother's heartbeat and feel her body heat?
Definition
kangaroo care
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Infant needs adequate sleep for:
Definition
brain maturation learning emotional regulation
Student Response
Term
If the brain creates too many stress hormones what can happen?
Definition
poor stress response in life
Term
In order for infants to develop language areas and speak the language fluently later, the infant must:
Definition
hear a lot of speech
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In the visual cliff experiments, about what age did infants start refusing to cross the visual cliff?
Definition
10 months
Term
What is it called when an infant has a sudden increase in vocabulary about 18 months, especially the number of nouns?
Definition
naming explosion
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Jill's baby is 18 months old. The baby is angry, cries, distraught when Jill leaves her. What do we call this behavior?
Definition
separation anxiety
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A goodness of fit, or similarity of temperament and values between parents and child creates what type of environment?
Definition
smooth interaction between child and family, school, and community
Term
Which theory believes that it is the child's interpretation of early experiences that is more important than the experiences themselves?
Definition
cognitive
Term
What type of study is studying several groups of people different ages and follow them over the years?
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cross sequential research
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Which set of twins have the same genotype and the zygote splits early in the development?
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mono zygotic (identical)
Term
Does correlational studies establish causation?
Definition
no
Term
Children need ____________ calories per pound of body weight than infants do.
Definition
less
Term
The primary reason for faster thinking is _____________ which is a fatty coating on the axons.
Definition
myelination
Term
Which of the following is not true about handedness?
Definition
many cultures and cutsoms favor the left hand
Term
____________enables children to focus attention and curb impulsiveness.
Definition
prefrontal cortex
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What is the leading cause of death world wide for people under 40?
Definition
accidents
Term
True or False. The earlier the abuse starts and the longer it continues, the worse peer relationships are.
Definition
true
Term
Many grandparents take care of their grandchildren because of the parents using drugs. What type of care is this?
Definition
kinship care
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During Preoperational thought how do children think?
Definition
symbolic thought, especially language and imagination
Term
According to Vygotsky, what is the tempory support that is tailored to a learner's needs and abilities and aimed at helping the learner master the next task in a given learning process?
Definition
scaffolding
Term
What is the sensitive period to master vocabulary, grammar, and pronouncation?
Definition
early childhood
Term
Which type of program emphasizes children learning by a teacher, learning shapes, numbers, and colors. These children know when it is time to play and when it is time to work.
Definition
teacher directed programs
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What type of program does head start fall under?
Definition
intervention program
Term
_________ is a person's understanding of who he or she is, incorporating self-esteem, appearance, personality, and various traits.
Definition
self concept
Term
Sometimes Julie breaks things, throws things, hits other people. What type of lack of emotion regulation does Julie have?
Definition
externalizing problems
Term
Playing helps which of the following?
Definition
emotional regulation
social understanding
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Betty loves to play "house". Each person has a role in the family. What type of play is this?
Definition
sociodramatic play
Term
Billy's dad has high standards of how Billy should act. He does not explain what Billy did wrong but gives strict punishment. What type of parenting style is this?
Definition
authoritarian
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Which type of parenting style do children grow up being happy, successful, articulate, and generous to others?
Definition
authoritative
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Which type of aggression is where a child insults another child or social rejects them?
Definition
relational agression
Term
Which theorist developed a theory that there are 9 intelligences and is highly used in education with children?
Definition
gardner
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Which of the following make it difficult to diagnosis a child with a mental health disorder?
Definition
people show different symptoms at different ages
symptoms differ with different children
It is hard to decide if a behavior is beyond odd
Term
Sally has difficulty communicating with others, poor social skills, and unusual patterns of playing. If Sally goes for testing what disorder will the doctors focus on?
Definition
autism spectrum disorder
Term
Which law allowed children with disabilities in a regular classroom so they would have the least restricted environment?
Definition
Pl 94-142 Education of all Handicapped Children Act
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Which law recognized learning disabilities?
Definition
PL 91-230 Children with Specific Learning Disabilities Act
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Which stage of Piaget's Cognitive Theory do most school age children fall under?
Definition
formal
Term
Which stage of Erikson's Psychosocial Theory do most school age children fall under?
Definition
Industry verses Inferiority
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Which of the following would goes along with Vygotsky's Theory?
Definition
children learn by being appretinces
Term
Which memory improves steadily in middle childhood?
Definition
working memory
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Which law is designed to increase accountability in education?
Definition
no child left behind
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Which way of learning is most likely to be developed based on Piaget and Vygotsky?
Definition
giving a child manipulatives to learn math
Term
Jill gets mad at her friends for leaving her at the swings. She tries not to throw a fit and to regulate her emotions. Jill is using:
Definition
effortful control
Term
Who can help children cope with stress?
Definition
the community or nonrelated adults
grandparents
teachers
Term
Which of the following is true concerning family and children?
Definition
changes in the family affect every family member differently
children raised in the same household may not experience the same home environment
Term
True or False: Children have a need to feel harmony in their family and divorce and conflict often disrupts the harmony.
Definition
true
Term
Which term best describes: Many of Jennie's peers dislike her because she is confrontational and always starting trouble, trying to get things stirred up?
Definition
agressive rejected
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Which of Kolhberg's stages is based on the moral reasoning of: behaving right because of rules and trying to get social approval.
Definition
stage 2 conventional
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Which of the following affects puberty?
Definition
stress nutrition age
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Which person tends to have lower self esteem, depression, and poorer body image?
Definition
early maturing girl
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Sexual development is more hazardous because which of following?
Definition
earlier puberty and weaker social taboos
mothers of teens are often employed
Term
Which of the following defines sexual abuse?
Definition
any erotic activity that arouses an adult and excites, shames, or confuses a child and whether or not the victim protests and whether or not genital contact is involved.
Term
What is the best term that describes: Dylan is 16. He drives fast, has unprotected sex, and lives like nothing can happen to him. What is the term that best describes his thinking?
Definition
invincibility fable
Term
About how many high school students do not go to college?
Definition
33 percent
Term
Which stage of Erikson's Psychosocial development where the teen tries to figure out who they are?
Definition
identity verses role confusion
Term
Julie's parent's are Baptist and so is she. Which of the following best describes her identity formation?
Definition
religious identity
Term
Jessica argues with her parents daily. Her parents are tired of the arguing and decide to let Jessica do whatever she wants. Now Jessica does what she wants and pays for all her personal items. Which of the following terms best describes this situation?
Definition
neglect
Term
Which of the following is not an aspect of family closeness?
Definition
communicating openly with one another
relying on one another
parents setting limits
Term
Peers facilitate only constructive behaviors in one another.
Definition
false
Term
Parents often over estimate their adolescent's need for information.
Definition
false
Term
Which gender has the highest suicide rate?
Definition
males
Term
Suicidal thoughts is fairly common but completed suicides are not.
Definition
true
Term
Which is the best predictor of drug abuse later in life?
Definition
using drugs before age 18
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The younger a person is when the begin using drugs, the more likely they are to become addicted.
Definition
true
Term
Generally speaking, emerging adulthood health is:
Definition
good with little death from disease
Term
Jenny is 23 years old and is nervous about giving birth. What does your notes say about emerging adults giving birth that you could tell her?
Definition
the birthing process usually has few complications in people in their early 20's than in any other time of life.
Term
Advances in contraception have reduced the birth rate and have also increased the rate of sexual activity, especially among unmarried adults.
Definition
true
Term
Sexually transmitted diseases have:
Definition
Have reached epidemic proportions due to sexual patterns
Term
Rate of serious mental illness stays the same over a lifetime.
Definition
false
Term
Joe looks for jobs, recreational activities where he can live a little dangerously. What is the term that best describes his behavior?
Definition
edgework
Term
Which disorder is most common mood disorder?
Definition
depression
Term
What is it called when a person who doesn't have a drug has a physiological drive or a biological drive or both to get more of the drug?
Definition
addiction
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Which stage of thought focuses more on being open to ideas than concerned with absolute right and wrong?
Definition
postformal
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What is the most advanced cognitive process where a person can consider pro's and con's and arrive at a conclusion?
Definition
dialetical thinking
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Which gender tends to judge things by emphasizing justice over passion?
Definition
males
Term
The United States has the same amount of colleges it had 50 years ago.
Definition
false
Term
The correlation between college education and later income is stronger now than before due to loss of unskilled jobs.
Definition
true
Term
Which of Erikson's stages do most emerging adults go through?
Definition
intamacy vs isolation
Term
Throughout life friends help defend against stress and provide joy.
Definition
true
Term
Which type of romantic partner patterns is most common in Western cultures?
Definition
people socialize with many and then fall in love and marry when they are able.
Term
Most adults in the US, England, and northern Europe cohabit rather than marry before 25.
Definition
true
Term
What is the divorce rate in the US?
Definition
50 percent
Term
Which experience more partner violence?
Definition
people under 25
Term
_______ a loss of hearing that is associated with senescence and that usually does not become apparent until after age 60.
Definition
presbycusis
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Adults of ALL ages enjoy very high levels of emotional satisfaction and physical pleasure from sex within their relationships.
Definition
true
Term
Which of the following is true concerning adulthood?
Definition
muscles weaken
skin becomes thinner and less flexible
multitasking becomes harder
Term
Which of the following is NOT a cause usually a cause of brain loss in middle age according to your notes?
Definition
birth defect
Term
Drug abuse ____________ markedly over adulthood.
Definition
decreases
Term
Drinking no more than 2 drinks a day increases life expectancy.
Definition
true
Term
Which of the following is NOT true concerning hormone replacement therapy?
Definition
owers risk of breast cancer
Term
________ is the measure of health that refers to how healthy and energetic-physically, emotionally, and socially- an individual is actually feeling.
Definition
vitality
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What did the Seattle Longitudinal Study find?
Definition
People improve in most mental abilities during adulthood then decline later in life
components of intelligence is many and varied
Term
At which age range is most people have a marked stability of personality?
Definition
30 to 50 years of age
Term
_______is collectively, the family members, friends, acquaintances, and even strangers who move through life with an individual.
Definition
social convoy
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Most adult siblings continue to argue and fight even in adulthood.
Definition
false
Term
What percent of adults have gotten married by the time they are 40?
Definition
85
Term
What does empty nest often do to relationships?
Definition
improve
Term
How long do consequences of divorce last?
Definition
decades
Term
Granny is ____________ of the family. She is the caregiver who takes the responsibility for maintaining communication among family members.
Definition
kinkeeper
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If a parent becomes ill, each sibling takes care of the parent equally.
Definition
false
Term
What is it called when the generation of middle-aged people are "squeezed" by the needs of the younger and the older members of their families?
Definition
sandwich generation
Term
How does employment help meet the generactivity of people?
Definition
help develop and use their personal skills
Express their creativity
allowing them to act as a mentor or friend
contribute to their community
Term
The midlife crisis, the empty nest, and sandwich generation is not common.
Definition
true
Term
Julie talks to her great grandmother with simple sentences speaking slowly like she is a little child. Which term best describes Julie's behavior?
Definition
elderspeak
Term
The specific physical illnesses or conditions that become more common with aging but result from poor health habits, genetic vulnerability, and other influences that vary from person to person.
Definition
secondary aging
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Older adults sleep often and well.
Definition
false
Term
North American who live to be 95 are likely to be independent almost all those years.
Definition
true
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_______-- is the mechanism in the DNA of cells that regulates the aging process by triggering hormonal changes and controlling cellular reproduction and repair.
Definition
genetic clock
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____ is when using one brain region in inadequate for complex thinking, so older adults automatically use more parts.
Definition
compensation
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____________- is the irreversable loss of intellectual functioning caused by organic brain damage or disease.
Definition
dementia
Term
Is alzheimer disease, according to your notes, common or rare in middle age?
Definition
rare
Term
What disease starts out with a tremor of the muscles as neurons that produce dopamine degenerate?
Definition
parkinson
Term
Which of Erikson's psychosocial stages is many late adulthood people in?
Definition
integrity verses despair
Term
Wisdom is an expert knowledge system dealing with the conduct and understanding of life.
Definition
true
Term
Mrs. Betty has a tendency to only tell stories of positive experiences of her past. It is as though nothing bad ever happened. Which term best describes this thinking?
Definition
positivity effect
Term
___________ is the view that elderly people want and need to remain active in a variety of social spheres and become withdrawn only unwillingly.
Definition
activity theory
Term
Older adults are more likely to attend religious services than are middle aged adults.
Definition
false
Term
Which of the following is a reason people work over 65?
Definition
they appreciate social recognition and self-fulfillment of work
Term
Does having a spouse late in life, help or hurt a person's health?
Definition
help
Term
Older adults enjoy having their children take care of them.
Definition
false
Term
Shannon has grandparents that love to have her over their house. They often take her anywhere she wants to go and buy her things she wants. What type of grandparent does this describe?
Definition
companionate grandparents
Term
All research finds that older adults need at least one close companion.
Definition
true
Term
When is elder abuse likely to occur?
Definition
if the care receiver has severe memory loss
is the caregiver is a drug abuser
if visitors are few and far between
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