Module 45-50

Which is the correct order?

• embryo, fetus, zygote
• fetus, zygote, embryo
• embryo, zygote, fetus
• zygote, embryo, fetus

Substances that can damage an embryo or fetus are called:

• Teratogens
• Zygotes
• Vitamins
• Placentas

What reflex is when a baby turns its head toward something that brushes its cheek and gropes with its mouth?

• Sucking
• Rooting
• Swallowing
• Grasping

Decreased response to a stimulus to which you are exposed repeatedly

• habituation
• conservation
• conditioning
• reflex

Dr. Matsuko's research is on the long-term effects of child-rearing practices on the psychological adjustment. Dr. Matsuko is a ________ psychologist.

• developmental
• cognitive
• biological
• psychodynamic

Your friends baby brother Matt loves to play with his pet. When he sees a puppy, he points and calls it Mi Mi which is what he calls his cat. Matt is demonstrating Piaget's process of

• conservation

• accommodation

• cognition

• assimilation

If you showed a 2 year old that you'd hidden a toy behind the bed in a model of her bedroom, she would not be able to find the toy in her real bedroom because she lacks

• analytical thinking

• random thinking

• symbolic thinking

• schematic thinking

Vygotsky called the space between what a child could learn with and without help the

• theory of mind

• zone of abstract logic

• zone of abstract reasoning

• zone of proximal development

Which of the following is current belief of researchers that differs from Piaget's original theories?

• Infants simply have less information about the world than older children and adults

• Object permanence develops earlier than Piaget believed

• Infants learn more by verbal explanations than Piaget believed.

• Accommodation is a process that doesn't occur in young children

We have no conscious memories of events occurring before about age 3 and 1/2, in part because of

• Infantile amnesia

• Cortical deprivation

• Spacing

• accomodation