Modules 45-46: Prental, Infancy & Child Physical Development

Which branch of psychology studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span?

• Developmental Psychology

• Psychoneuroimmunology

• Positive Psychology

• Behavioral Psychology

What is the term that refers to a fertilized egg that begins a rapid period of cell division?

• Zygote

• Embryo

• Fetus

• Tetatogens

What is the term that refers to the developing human organism from 2 weeks after fertilization throug the second month of pregnancy?

• Zygote

• Embryo

• Fetus

• Tetatogens

What is the term that refers to the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth?

• Zygote

• Embryo

• Fetus

• Tetatogens

What is the term that refers to agents such as chemicals and viruses that can reach the embryo or fetus during prental development and cause harm?

• Schemas

• Menarche

• Telomeres

• Tetatogens

Which of the following are signs fetal alcohol syndrome?

• Small Head

• Out of Proportion Head

• Abnormal Facial Features

• All of the above

What term refers to the biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience?

• Maturation

• Habituation

• Assimilation

• Accomodation

Unused neural links in the brain will be pruned off an lost forever.

• True

• False

Infantile amnesia refers to

• The inability to remember much from your first 3-4 years of life.

• Babies & toddlers inability to form any memories.

• Babies & toddlers inability to learn anything.

• None of the above.