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________ theories assume that people are affected by the
environmental stimuli to which they are exposed, and developmental
change is - ✔✔Behavioral; quantitative


________ twins are no more genetically similar than two siblings born
at different times. - ✔✔Dizygotic


_________ conditioning, in which the response being conditioned is
voluntary and purposeful, differs from _________ conditioning, where
the response is automatic. - ✔✔operant; classical


_________ receive messages from other cells, and at their opposite
end there is a long extension called a(n) ________ which carries the
messages. - ✔✔Dendrites; axon


______________ is thinking that makes use of cognitive skills and
strategies to increase the likelihood of solving problems, forming
inferences, and making decisions appropriately and successfully. -
✔✔Critical thinking

,______________ suggests that a person's development cannot be
properly viewed without seeing how that person is enmeshed within
a social and cultural context. - ✔✔Contextual perspective


"Piaget observed his son Laurent dropping a toy swan repeatedly,
varying the position from which he dropped it, [and] carefully
observing each time to see where it fell." This is an example of -
✔✔Substage 5: Tertiary circular reactions


3-year-old Randy occasionally talks to himself in front of others, and
ignores his mother's instructions to come to the table and eat with his
family. In this example, Randy is demonstrating - ✔✔egocentric
thought


8-month-old Baby Lucy picks up a toy in her crib and accidentally hits
her crib with the toy making an interesting noise. She begins to drag
the toy back and forth against the sides of the crib's railing which
produces another different and interesting sound. This prompts Lucy
to continue repeating the action over and over again. Piaget would
say that this is an example of - ✔✔Substage 3: Secondary circular
reactions.


A baby born earlier than 25 weeks has less than a _______ chance of
survival. - ✔✔50%

,A baby is considered small-for-gestational-age if - ✔✔because of fetal
growth the baby weights 90% (or less) of the average weight of other
infants the same gestational age.


A form of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or
weakened by its association with positive or negative consequences is
called - ✔✔operant conditioning


A historical event, such as the terrorist attacks in New York in
September of 2001, would be considered by Bronfenbrenner to fall
within which system? - ✔✔chronosystem


A shared notion of reality that is widely accepted but is a function of
society and culture at a given time is/are called - ✔✔a social
construction


A type of learning in which an organism responds in a particular way
to a neutral stimulus that normally does not bring about that type of
response is called - ✔✔classical conditioning


About _______ babies born to mothers over 50 have ______. - ✔✔1
out of 4; Down syndrome


About ___________ babies born to mothers over 40 have ________. -
✔✔1 out of 100; Down syndrome.

, According to encoding specificity phenomenon, people are most likely
to recall information - ✔✔in environments similar to where they
learned it.


According to Piaget, _________ is at the heart of __________, which is
a major advance for preschool children - ✔✔symbolic function;
language


According to Piaget, _________ is at the heart of __________, which is
a major advance for preschool children. - ✔✔symbolic function;
language


According to Piaget, what is the key aspect of preoperational stage? -
✔✔symbolic function


According to Piaget, which stage occurs from approximately age 2 to
age 7 in which children's use of symbolic thinking grows, mental
reasoning emerges, and the use of concepts increases? -
✔✔preoperational


According to researchers Arnold Lazarus and Susan Folkman, the
assessment of whether one's coping abilities and resources are
adequate to overcome the harm, threat, or challenge posed by the
potential stressor is called - ✔✔secondary appraisal
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