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| Having a BMI of 30 or more |
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| A protein that is involved in satiety; acts as an anti-obesity hormone. |
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| The weight you maintain when you make no effort to gain or lose weight. |
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| Disorder that involves long term, repeated, uncontrolled, compulsive and excessive use of alcoholic beverages and that impairs the drinker's health and social relatinships |
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| The active drug in cigarettes - a stimulant |
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| Sexually Transmitted Infections |
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| Diseases contracted through intercourse and/or oral-genital and anal-genital sex |
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| Virus that destroys the body's immune system. |
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| Invisible barrier to career advancement preventing women and ethnic minorities from holding managerial or executive jobs. |
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| Forcible sexual intercourse with a person who does not give consent. |
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| Individual's behavioral style and characteristic emotional responses. |
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| Spans a range of relationships that includes friendship, romantic love, and affectionate love. |
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| Proposed a triarchic theory of love in which love can be thought of as a triangle with 3 main dimensions - passion, intimacy, and commitment. |
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| Living together in a sexual relationship without being married. |
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| Age related loss of muscle mass and strength. |
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| Ability of the eye to focus and maintain image on the retina |
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| midlife transition in which fertility declines |
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| HRT - Hormone Replacement Theory |
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| Augments declining levels of reproductive hormone productin by the ovaries. |
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| Adults' desire to leave legacies of themselves to the next generation. |
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wrote "Seasons of Man's Life" |
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| Individuals born in the same year or time period. |
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What percentage of youth are involved in juvenile court cases? |
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| What percentage of high school students contemplate suicide? |
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| The percentage of the US population thay may have dyslexia. |
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| At least twice the general population |
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| The drop-out rate for students with dyslexia |
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| Aids virus can be passed through mother's breast milk |
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| One disadvantage of programs in impoverished countries that encourage mothers to breast-feed their babies. |
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| cephalocaudal pattern of development |
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| development of the brain, followed by the spinal cord, and then leg nerves |
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| proximodistal pattern of development |
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| Baby is able to move his trunk and arms, but is unable to control his hands and fingers is what pattern of development? |
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20 inches and 7.5 lbs long |
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| Average American newborn weighs __________ and is _________long. |
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| considerably heavier than most babies |
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| a baby weighted 12 lbs when born; compared to other newborns in the US, he is _________. |
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| a nerve cell in the brain is called |
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Extensive brain development continues: |
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Swelling and hemorraging of a baby's brain is likely to be the result of: |
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| By a child's 2nd birthday, is or her brain is approximately _______ of the weight of an adult's brain. |
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The cerebral cortex plays a role in: perception language thought all of the above |
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conception and continues throughout the human life span. |
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| Development is best defined as a pattern of growth that begins at: |
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Development includes: stability and growth growth and decline stability and decline growth and change |
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whether most developmental change occurs in infancy and early childhood or in later phases of development |
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One psychologist believes in the traditional view of development change; another one believes in the life-span view. Mostly likely, they would disagree about: - the scientific methods used in study development - whether the tabula rasa or innate goodness positions were correct. - whether most developmental change occurs in infancy and early childhood or in later phases of development - whether the earlier theoritsts, such as Frued and Jung, were correct or whether the later theorists such as Piaget and SKinner were correct. |
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| throughout the entire life cycle |
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| According to life-span perspective, when do develomental changes occur? |
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| development changes occur in the early, middle, and late years. |
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| A life-span theorist believes that: |
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| There are few or no chanes that occur during adulthood. |
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| What does the traditional view of human development state about develomental change in adulthood? |
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| the average number of years a person can live. |
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| Life expectancy refers to: |
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| The idea that no age period dominates development highlights the life-span perspective that development is: |
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Life expectancy increased during the 20th century because of improvements in: santitation nutrition medicine all of these |
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| includes physical characteristics such as height, weight, and hair color |
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Male's or females are more susceptible to sex-linked inheritance? |
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Condition that is a result of an extra copy of chromosome 21 |
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| Condition when individuals cannot metabolize an amino acid |
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| Occurs in response to an external stimuli |
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| Does not occur in reponse to external stimuli, appears during first month |
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| Built-in reactions to stimuli |
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| close emotional bond between two people |
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| reading emotional cues in others to help determine how to act in a situation |
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| unused connections disappear |
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| carries signals away from the cell body |
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| showing and point, occurs at 8 - 12 months |
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| Understanding that objects continue to exist even when they can't be seen or heard. |
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| highest cause of infant death |
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| LAD - Language acquisition device |
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| humans are biological prewired to learn language |
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| children adjust their schemes to take in new information |
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| most frequent expression of an infant's fear |
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| tendency to apply a word to objects that are inappropriate for the word's meaning |
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| carries signals to the cell body |
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| sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the top, beginning with the head |
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| children use their existing schemes to deal with new information |
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| specialization of function in one hemisphere or another |
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| demonstrated infants have binocular vision by 4 months |
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| adjusting to new environmental demands |
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| enduring personal characteristics |
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| mental representations that organize knowledge |
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| covers the forebrain like a wrinkled cap |
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during the elementary years, a child's self-understanding includes increasing reference to al of the following, except: psychological characteristics social comparison social aspects physical characteristics |
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| i am nice, and i have a friend named Julie |
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how would an 8 year old describe himself: i am 8 and i have a bicycle i am 9 and i have red hair i am nice and i have a friend name Julie i am taller than my brother but shorter than my mother |
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compare themselves with their peers |
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In terms of self-understanding, children in late childhood are more likely than children in early childhood to: compare themselves with their peers compare themselves with role models use physical characteristics to describe themselves use outer states to describe themselves |
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which refers to self-evaluations in the different domains of an individual's life? self-concept self-esteem self-awareness self-concept |
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self-esteem is to _________self-evaluation as to self-concept is to _______self-evalutation |
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The correclation between self-esteem and school performance is: very low modearate high very high |
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| emotional support and social approval |
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Teachers working on the self-esteem of students frequently comment on how nice it is to have students in class. Which strategy are the teachers engaging in? emotional support and social approval promotion increased achievement helping student cope with a problem implementing a peer support system |
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| they perform competently at a task they value. |
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Children have the highest self-esteem when: they are emotionally supported for their efforts they perform competently at a task they value they are extrinsically rewarded by role models their peers acknowledge their achievements |
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| prenatal development lasts ____ number of days |
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| germinal period is ______ of weeks after conception |
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| Period when implantation to the uterine wall occurs |
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| when organs are most susceptible to environmental infuences |
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| Apgar score measures how many signs of health? |
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| insufficient blood supply |
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| a way of holding an infant for extended period of time |
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| when the uterus returns to it's pre-pregnant size |
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| number of stages in Erikson's theory of development |
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involves
thoughts, feelings, and actions regarding rules and regulations about what people
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Freud’s view that the preschool
child develops a sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parent |
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The sense of being male or female
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| Sets of expectations that prescribe how females or males should think, act, and feel |
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| Age children recognize laws |
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| responding to another person’s feelings with an emotion that echoes the other’s feelings |
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| Who developed 4 types of parenting styles? |
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| Restrictive, punitive parenting style in which parents place firm limits and controls - most restrictive. |
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| Authoritative parenting style |
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| parenting style that encourages children to be independent but still places limits and controls on their actions. |
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| Neglectful Parenting Style |
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| parent is very uninvolved in the child's life |
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| Indulgent Parenting Style |
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| parenting style in which parents are highly involved in children's lives but place few demands or controls on them. |
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Child is briefly removed from a setting that offers positive reinforcement.
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| may take the form of physical abuse, child neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse |
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Which children are more adult-oriented, helpful, conforming, and self-controlled. These children excel in academic and professional endeavors, and they have more
guilt, anxiety, and difficulty in coping with stressful situations, as
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| hobby or other enjoyable activity |
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The process by which the axons are covered and insulated with a layer of fat cells
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| which parents time interactions in such a way that the infant experiences turn-taking with the parents. This involves parental behavior that supports children’s efforts. |
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| Which Piaget stage lasts from 2 - 7 years old in which children begin to represent the world in words, pictures, and drawings. |
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inability to distinguish between
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| ZPD (Zone of Proximal Development) |
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term for the range of tasks that are too difficult for the child to master alone but that can be learned with guidance
and assistance of adults or more-skilled children |
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| Developed sociocultural cognitive theory |
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| language for self-regulation |
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| Relatively permanent memory; |
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| repeating information after it has been presented |
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| refers to awareness of one’s own mental processes and the mental processes of others |
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| Who claims children learn through association |
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| 90% of children are potty trained by what age? |
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| What are variables in survey research called? |
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| What research implies cause and effect? |
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| research simultaneously compares individuals of different ages. |
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| Women are born with a lifetime of eggs? |
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| Environmental toxins that are harmful to developing fetus? |
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| number of autosomal genes? |
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| Language development proceeds rapidly at what age? |
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| combining two words is called? |
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| term that identifies idential twins |
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| term that identifies fraternal twins |
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| What chromosome does Turney syndrome exclude? |
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