Development Review 2026

Anything that can disrupt the development of an embryo or fetus in a pregnant mother's womb. It may cause a birth defect, malformation, or terminate the pregnancy altogether.

• teratogen

• form of DNA

• Neurotransmitter

• FAS

A set of mental and physical disorders that can include mental retardation, brain dysfunction, physical abnormalities, learning disabilities, and psychological disorders that occurs as a result of prenatal exposure to alcohol.

• Hyperactivity.

• Habituation.

• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

• Embryonic Differentiation.

• Multiple Sclerosis.

A reflex that is seen in normal newborn babies, who automatically turn the face toward the stimulus and make sucking motions with the mouth when the cheek or lip is touched is called

• The Babinski Reflex.

• The Palmar Reflex.

• The Galant Reflex

• The Rooting reflex.

• The Moro reflex

Which of the following would you see in the first week that a baby arrives home?

• Showing a preferences for solid food.

• Imitating facial expressions seen from across the room.

• Babbling and imitating speech noises.

• Turning her/his head toward a human voice.

Biological growth processes that enable changes in behavior.

• cognition

• schemas

• development

• maturation

We lack the ability to form memories the first few months after birth because

• the trauma of birth interferes with the subsequent formation of memories.

• we don’t have enough neural connections during the first few years of our lives to form memories.

• most brain cells do not yet exist at the time of birth.

• many neural connections that underlie memories are only beginning to form shortly after two-years of age.

Mental plans or rules we use to organize our experiences are called

• cognition.

• rules.

• schemas.

• attachment.

Who developed the Four Stages of Cognitive Development?

• Jean Piaget

• Lawrence Kohlberg

• Erik Erikson

• Sigmund Freud

If you believe that all doctors are male because you have never met a female doctor and then you meet a female doctor and you think she is a nurse, you most likely have a(n)

• stranger anxiety.

• insecure attachment.

• inadequate schema.

• egocentrism.

• imprinting.

A logical thinking ability that allows a person to determine that a certain quantity will remain the same despite adjustment of the container, shape, or apparent size is known as

• abstract logic

• schema

• conservation.

• object permanence.