Exam 1 Flashcards
Despite being raised in two very different environments, identical twins Tina and Gina receive similar score on a shyness scale. These results suggest that reaction range for shyness is
Small
The research of Dr. Kayla Wahlstrom as sited in the book Nurture Shock found that
teens who receive A’s averaged fifteen more minutes of sleep than B students.
Whose behavior best exemplifies eugenics?
Dr. Black, who allows only certain individuals to mate in an effort to build a master race.
Linda has on allele for curly hair and another for straight hair. Linda alleles are
heterozygous
infant mortality rate is defined as the percentage of infants who die
before their first birthday
what should Dranko do when he is informed that his newborn son has PKU (phenylketonuria)?
dont panic, since despite being a genetic disorder, it can be controlled through proper diet.
The that the embryonic head develops before the body illustrates the_ principle.
cephalocaudal
which statement concerning in vitro fertilization is false?
about 90% of in vitro fertilization attempts are successful.
at weeks after conception, a developing human is most accurately called a
embryo
what effect is not associated with fetal alcohol syndrome
blindness
According to a 1999 study by Johns Hopkins University the elimination of Driver’s Education from nine school district’s curriculum resulted in:
27% drop in auto accidents among 16- and 17-year old.
The fact that 6-month-olds will look for long periods of time at toys they previously had only been able to touch suggest that infants
are able to integrate visual and tactile information
which best describes a newborn’s sense of smell?
highly developed
what evidence do researchers have that you sound infants use sound to locate objects?
When they hear a sound, they attempt to look toward the source
Jeffrey is a three-year-old who is beginning to make connections between people’s thoughts, intentions, and behaviors. According to Wellman, Jeffrey is developing
a theory of mind
Evan is a normal subject in a self-awareness study who has just begun to recognize himself in mirrors and pictures. It is most likely that Evan is about_old.
18 Months
Which child’s visual acuity visual would have recently matched that of a “20/20” visioned adults?
Stephanie, who is 1 year old
(T/F) As reported in the book Nurture Shock a child’s inability too regulate impulsivity may result in lower IQ scores.
True
Newborns:
can perceive few colors.
Infants:
produce a distinct “pain cry”
Mia likes to kick soccer balls. She has developed a mental structure for kicking that may be applied to different situations. This mental structure for kicking would best be described as
a scheme
which is legitimate criticism of Piaget’s theory?
not enough emphasis on sociocultural influences
which number illustrates the fact that in English, numbers do not all follow a regular naming pattern, thus making learning to count more difficult in English than in other number systems?
11
which would most likely be considered “mental software” be someone with an information-processing perspective?
experience-based problem- solving knowledge
Donny’s mother has just poured him and his sister Marie glasses of orange juice. After they are poured, Donny becomes very upset that he got less juice than his sister. Their mother points out that while Donny’s glass is shorter, it is also wider, and thus both explain Donny’s behavior as being the result of
centration
Federer is trying to implement a scaffolding style into his teaching of tennis to Venus, who is having difficulty, and to Serena, who is doing very well. To do this, Federer must
give Venus more assistance & give Serena less
Four-week-old Dixie appears to understand that when you push a cup over the edge of a table, the cup will fall to the ground. Such an understanding would provide support for the concept of
naive physics
According researchers at the University of Washington, infants who watch “baby videos?”
have smaller vocablularies than those who don’t watch the “baby videos.”
Pavlov’s research involving a dog, salivation, and a bells is correctly associated with_theory.
classical conditioning
Piaget described a scheme as a psychological structure that
organizes exprience
Even though Brenda has never reinforced directly for doing so, she increased the frequency of her swearing after she saw her friend Elizabeth get a lot of attention after she swore. This is most likely an example of
observational learning
which word is the best description of the meaning of the term “reliability?”
consistency
since Dr. Kim takes a strong nature position concerning the origins of mental retardation, she would most likely hypothesize that her son’s retardation is due to
her genes
