- The father of a child determines the sex of a child.
Your answer:
TrueFalse
- A child's genotype is determined at conception.
Your answer:
TrueFalse
- A child's phenotype is immutable.
Your answer:
TrueFalse
- Every human cell contains 46 chromosomes.
Your answer:
TrueFalse
- Prenatal development is divided into three phases.
Your answer:
TrueFalse
- One can conclude from this chart that Bangladesh has a teenage pregnancy problem.
Your answer:
TrueFalse
- The physical growth of a child proceeds cephalocaudally, that is from head to toe.
Your answer:
TrueFalse
- The physical growth of a child proceeds proximodistally; that is from the extremities of the body inward.
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Infancy information from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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TrueFalse
- The various systems in the body grow and develop at approximately the same rate.
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Infancy information from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Your answer:
TrueFalse
- Experience (nurture) plays a significant role in the motor development of a child.
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Infancy information from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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TrueFalse
- All of the baby's organ systems and structures are formed during the ___ phase of prenatal development?
Your answer:
zygote
embryonic
fetal
genotype
- The placenta serves all of the following functions EXCEPT
Your answer:
production of hormones
quickening
transfer of gases and chemicals between the embryo and the mother
metabolism
- Which of the following during pregnancy is most likely to produce low birthweight babies?
Your answer:
venereal disease
alcohol consumption
diabetes
rubella
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is a medical diagnosis that requires the presence of all of the following signs EXCEPT
Your answer:
central nervous system involvement
prenatal and/or postnatal growth retardation
facial abnormalities
blood incompatibility
- Research associates prenatal cocaine exposure to increased risks of all EXCEPT one of the following. Which is NOT a risk associated with cocaine exposure?
Your answer:
high Apgar scores
stillbirth
premature detachment of the placenta
smaller-than-normal headsize and low birthweight
- The word "infant" derives from Latin terms which mean
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cInfancy information from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Your answer:
blank slate
noble savage
non-speaker
not large
- The Apgar Test measures
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Infancy information from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Your answer:
the extent of prelinguistic development in infants
the risk of complications during the birth process
the color, heart rate, reflex irritability, muscle tone, and breathing effort of the newborn
the presence of chromosonal abnormalities in prenatal cells
- Which of these pairs of people would have the highest correlation in their IQ scores?
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identical twins reared apart
fraternal twins reared together
biological parent and child living apart
non-twin siblings reared together
- Children who are deprived of language experience in early childhood because of abuse or neglect
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Infancy information from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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never speak
never reach normal levels of language competence even after years of special training.
reach normal levels of language competence but speak with a stutter
reach normal levels of language competence with years of special training.
- Of the following, the substance that typically cannot pass through the placenta to the developing embryo is:
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PreNatal Development
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sugars, proteins, and fats
viruses
maternal blood cells
oxygen