NR 203 Practice Exam with Accurate Answers.
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Katie's 9-month-old son Jason sucks and chews on just about everything he finds—toys, books,
fingers, and so forth. According to psychoanalytic theory, Jason is in the: - ✔✔Oral Stage
Rachel is a young child who has been given a vaccination each time she has been to the doctor's
office. She now starts to scream and cry each time she sees the doctor's office building.
According to the principles of classical conditioning, she is screaming and crying because she: -
✔✔has learned to associate the building with the pain she feels when she gets a shot.
Social learning theory emphasizes learning through: - ✔✔observation and imitation.
Piaget's theory of development focused primarily on: - ✔✔how our thinking changes as we
grow older.
Developmentalists' argument over the relative importance of hereditary and environmental
influences is called the: - ✔✔nature-nurture controversy.
In Erik Erikson's theory: - ✔✔developmental challenges continue throughout adulthood.
According to Erikson, an infant experiences: - ✔✔Trust vs. mistrust
Cognitive theories emphasize the: - ✔✔development of thought processes and their effect on
behavior.
A purpose of a developmental theory is: - ✔✔to offer insight into practical guidance to parents,
teachers, and therapists.
,The life-span approach: - ✔✔examines the links between childhood and adulthood.
The notion that development involves gains and losses that do not always occur in a straight
line exemplifies the following characteristic of the life-span approach. - ✔✔multidirectional
The study of human development is often divided into three domains: - ✔✔biosocial, cognitive,
and psychosocial.
Socioeconomic status refers to an individual's: - ✔✔social class
An ecological-systems approach to the study of human development was recommended by: -
✔✔urien bronfenbrenner
Identify a major characteristic of human development emphasized in the life-span approach: -
✔✔Plasticity
Every normal human body cell contains how many chromosomes? - ✔✔23 pairs
A genome is: - ✔✔the entire packet of instructions that make a living organism.
A person's sex is determined by: - ✔✔the 23rd pair of chromosomes.
Phenotype refers to: - ✔✔the actual expression of traits such as appearance and behavior.
People with down syndrome: - ✔✔have a third chromosome in the 21st pair.
The four dimensions of parenting style are warmth, discipline, communication, and: -
✔✔expectations for maturity
, Authoritarian parents: - ✔✔seem aloof from their children.
A family's structure is likely to change over time because of: - ✔✔Divorce
Compared with single-parent homes, two-parent homes usually have: - ✔✔higher incomes
The "age of viability" refers to the point when the preterm newborn: - ✔✔can survive
A teratogen is: - ✔✔a substance or a condition that can increase the risk of prenatal
abnormalities.
Since genes are known to affect the chance of neural-tube defects, pregnant women are urged
to begin taking vitamins with folic acid: - ✔✔before becoming pregnant.
The best policy regarding prescription drugs during pregnancy is: - ✔✔take drugs only if
medically necessary, prescribed by a knowledgeable doctor.
The normal length of pregnancy is: - ✔✔38-40 weeks
When a certain teratogen is relatively harmless in small doses but becomes harmful once
exposure reaches a certain level is: - ✔✔threshold effect
Once the fetus has developed to a point that it can survive outside the uterus, it has reached
the age of: - ✔✔viability
The best policy regarding prescription drugs during pregnancy is: - ✔✔take drugs only if
medically necessary, prescribed by a knowledgeable doctor.
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Katie's 9-month-old son Jason sucks and chews on just about everything he finds—toys, books,
fingers, and so forth. According to psychoanalytic theory, Jason is in the: - ✔✔Oral Stage
Rachel is a young child who has been given a vaccination each time she has been to the doctor's
office. She now starts to scream and cry each time she sees the doctor's office building.
According to the principles of classical conditioning, she is screaming and crying because she: -
✔✔has learned to associate the building with the pain she feels when she gets a shot.
Social learning theory emphasizes learning through: - ✔✔observation and imitation.
Piaget's theory of development focused primarily on: - ✔✔how our thinking changes as we
grow older.
Developmentalists' argument over the relative importance of hereditary and environmental
influences is called the: - ✔✔nature-nurture controversy.
In Erik Erikson's theory: - ✔✔developmental challenges continue throughout adulthood.
According to Erikson, an infant experiences: - ✔✔Trust vs. mistrust
Cognitive theories emphasize the: - ✔✔development of thought processes and their effect on
behavior.
A purpose of a developmental theory is: - ✔✔to offer insight into practical guidance to parents,
teachers, and therapists.
,The life-span approach: - ✔✔examines the links between childhood and adulthood.
The notion that development involves gains and losses that do not always occur in a straight
line exemplifies the following characteristic of the life-span approach. - ✔✔multidirectional
The study of human development is often divided into three domains: - ✔✔biosocial, cognitive,
and psychosocial.
Socioeconomic status refers to an individual's: - ✔✔social class
An ecological-systems approach to the study of human development was recommended by: -
✔✔urien bronfenbrenner
Identify a major characteristic of human development emphasized in the life-span approach: -
✔✔Plasticity
Every normal human body cell contains how many chromosomes? - ✔✔23 pairs
A genome is: - ✔✔the entire packet of instructions that make a living organism.
A person's sex is determined by: - ✔✔the 23rd pair of chromosomes.
Phenotype refers to: - ✔✔the actual expression of traits such as appearance and behavior.
People with down syndrome: - ✔✔have a third chromosome in the 21st pair.
The four dimensions of parenting style are warmth, discipline, communication, and: -
✔✔expectations for maturity
, Authoritarian parents: - ✔✔seem aloof from their children.
A family's structure is likely to change over time because of: - ✔✔Divorce
Compared with single-parent homes, two-parent homes usually have: - ✔✔higher incomes
The "age of viability" refers to the point when the preterm newborn: - ✔✔can survive
A teratogen is: - ✔✔a substance or a condition that can increase the risk of prenatal
abnormalities.
Since genes are known to affect the chance of neural-tube defects, pregnant women are urged
to begin taking vitamins with folic acid: - ✔✔before becoming pregnant.
The best policy regarding prescription drugs during pregnancy is: - ✔✔take drugs only if
medically necessary, prescribed by a knowledgeable doctor.
The normal length of pregnancy is: - ✔✔38-40 weeks
When a certain teratogen is relatively harmless in small doses but becomes harmful once
exposure reaches a certain level is: - ✔✔threshold effect
Once the fetus has developed to a point that it can survive outside the uterus, it has reached
the age of: - ✔✔viability
The best policy regarding prescription drugs during pregnancy is: - ✔✔take drugs only if
medically necessary, prescribed by a knowledgeable doctor.
