PSYC 290 Exam 1 questions with answers

PSYC 290 Exam 1 questions with |/ |/ |/ |/ |/




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the average newborn doubles her birthweight by - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔4 months
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children reach half their adult height by age - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔2 years
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approximately how may hours per day and night do newborns |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/


spend sleeping - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔16 hours
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the frontal areas of the cortex - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔assist
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with self control
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a reflex is a/n - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔involuntary response to
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stimulus
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in which of Piaget's sensorimotor stages do infants adapt,
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anticipate, and become more deliberate in responding to people
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and objects? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔stage 4
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when infants turn their heads and suck in response to a touch of
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the cheek - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔rooting reflex
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, gross motor skills are defined by - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔large
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movements
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breast milk - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔provides antibodies to fight
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diseases
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according to Chomsky's theory of language acquisition... -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔children have an inborn ability to learn
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langage
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T/F: neural connections that are not used shrink and disappear -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔true
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the average child can walk independently about - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔13-15 months
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The usual order of the development of spoken language is: -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔reflexes, cooing, babbling, spoken words
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the theorist who believed that children learn language when they
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are reinforced by parental attention - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔BF
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Skinner
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why do english-speaking children use more nouns than verbs
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when they begin to speak, as compared to children of chinese or
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korean descent? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔chinese and korean
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languages are "noun-friendly" languages because the rules of
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the languages are structured around nouns
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