Psyc quiz 3 – Flashcards
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Jordans weight is in the 50th percentile. This means that...
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Jordan is average. 50% of children weigh less that he does
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The human body is equipped to protect the brain when malnutrition temporarily effects body growth. This protective feature is known as what?
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head-sparing
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brain cells are called what?
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neurons
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The last part of the brain to mature is the...
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Prefrontal cortex
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A life threatening condition that occurs when infants are shaken back and forth sharply and quickly is called
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Shaken baby syndrome
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An abusive caregiver shakes an infant to get her to stop crying. The infant stops crying. Why?
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blood vessels in the brain rupture and fragile neural connections break
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Approximately how many hours a day does the average newborn spend sleeping?
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15 to 17 hours
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At what point in development is the sense of hearing quite acute?
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newborns
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In terms of vision acuity, newborns...
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Are legally blind
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The sense that is least developed at birth is an infants...
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vision
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By three months of age, babies look closely at the eyes and mouth when studying faces. This change in focus is due to the
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improvements in visual scanning ability
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Due to smell recognition, babies prefer sleep...
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nuzzled into their caregivers chest
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Newborns sense of touch allows them to
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be soothed by their caregiver
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The learned ability to move and control some part of the boys is referred to as...
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motor skill
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Most infants are able to inch forward on their bellies by the age of?
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5 months
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On average children begin to walk independently at approximately?
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at one year of age
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What three factors contribute to the ability to walk?
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muscle strength, brain maturation, and practice
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Most babies learn to grasp and hold onto objects by about ________ months old.
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6
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What is one effect of lower infant mortality rate?
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Public health measures
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When the immune system is primed to resist a particular disease, the process is called?
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immunization
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When children are immunized, they contribute to the protection of others, This is referred to as?
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herd immunity
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A hypothesis has been repeatedly disproved is that the MMR vaccine cause
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autism
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Why are breast-fed babies less likely to contract infectious diseases than bottle-fed babies?
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The rest milk contains antibodies that protect the baby against infectious diseases
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Studies comparing breast-fed to bottle-fed show that:
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breast milk appears to have so many advantages of formula milk
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A child who is too short for his or her age due to severe malnutrition is suffering from a condition called?
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Protein-calorie malnutrition
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When a child is more than two standard deviations underweight for his or her age, the child is suffering from a condition called
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Wasting
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By 10 months of age, alan has a vocabulary of a dozen works. B. F. Skinner would have attributed Alan's rapid speech development mainly to:
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the amount his parents talk to him
