Life Span Mid-Term Review (Jersey College)
Practice Questions & Answers (2026/2027) |
Full Revision Pack | Accurate Responses | A+
• What does Rousseau believe about children? -✓✓Children come into the
world as a tabula rasa- "a blank tablet" or clean slate.
• The field of biology that studies heredity is called -✓✓Genetics
• What are the 3 prenatal stages? -✓✓Germinal, Embryonic, Fetal
• What are teratogens? -✓✓environmental influences or agents that can
damage the embryo or fetus
Examples: drugs taken by mother, and substances that the mother's body
produces, such as Rh-positive antibodies
• Piaget's stages of cognitive development -✓✓sensorimotor,
preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
• Examples of Social Cognition -✓✓Observing others, reading, viewing
characters in the media, watching parents cook, clean, or repair a broken
appliance
• Microsystem -✓✓involves the interactions of the child and other people in
the immediate setting, such as the home, the school, or the peer group
• Macrosystem -✓✓involves the interaction of children with the beliefs,
values, expectations, and lifestyles of their cultural settings
• What did Skinner introduce? -✓✓The key concept of positive and
negative reinforcement in operant conditioning
• What is classical conditioning? -✓✓is a simple from of learning in which
an originally neutral stimulus comes to bring forth by a second stimulus as
a result of being paired repeatedly with the second stimulus
,• What is Vgotsky zone theory? -✓✓refers to the range of tasks that a child
can carry out with the help of someone who is more skilled, as in an
apprenticeship
• What are the five stages of psychosexual development? -✓✓Oral, Anal,
Phallic, Latency, and Genital
• What does Locke believe about behavior? -✓✓That social approval and
disapproval are powerful shapers of behavior.
• What is Rh incompatibility? -✓✓Antibodies produced by the mother are
transmitted to a fetus or newborn infant and cause brain damage or death
• Where is Rh found? -✓✓is a blood protein found in the red blood cells of
some individuals
• What occurs in Meosis? -✓✓Sperm and ova(egg cells) are produced
Also called reduction division
46 chromosomes within the cell nucleus first line up into 23 pairs
When the cell divides one member of each pair goes to each newly formed
cell.
• What is sickle cell anemia caused by? -✓✓caused by a recessive gene
• Who is sickle cell anemia most common in? -✓✓African Americans
• Effects of sickle cell anemia? -✓✓impair cognitive skills and academic
performance
Painful and swollen joints, jaundice, and potentially fatal conditions such as
pneumonia, stoke, and heart and kidney failure.
• What is REM sleep? -✓✓characterized by rapid eye movements that can
be observed beneath closed lids(neonates spend about 1/2 their time
sleeping) by two-three yrs. rem sleep drops off about 20-25%
, • What do scientists believe about REM sleep? -✓✓suggests that the brain
requires a certain amount of stimulation for the creation of proteins that are
involved in the development of neurons and synapses
• Methods of Childbirth -✓✓Anesthesia
Prepared Childbirth
C-Section
• What is the Lamaze Method? -✓✓prepared childbirth
women engage in breathing and relaxation exercises that lessen fear and
pain and distract them from discomfort
• What are Braxton Hicks contractions? -✓✓They are preterm or false
labor contractions
Serve to tone the muscles that will be used during delivery
• Percentage of women that experience PPD? -✓✓70% of new mothers
have periods of tearfulness, sadness, and irritability, which can be referred
to as "baby blues"
• What causes PPD? -✓✓Hormonal changes that accompany pregnancy
and follow delivery
• Name the tests done on newborns? -✓✓Apgar Scale-based on 5 signs of
health; apperance, pulse, grimace, activity level, and respiratory effort.
Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale-measures neonates
reflexes and other behavior patterns
• What are reflexes? -✓✓simple, automatic, stereotypical responses that
are elicited by certain types of stimulation
• Rooting Reflex -✓✓the baby turns the head and mouth toward a stimulus
that strokes the cheek, chin, or corner of the mouth
• Moro Reflex -✓✓the back arches and the legs and arms are flung out and
then brought back toward the chest, with the arms in a hugging motion
• Grasping Reflex -✓✓Also called the Palmer Reflex
Practice Questions & Answers (2026/2027) |
Full Revision Pack | Accurate Responses | A+
• What does Rousseau believe about children? -✓✓Children come into the
world as a tabula rasa- "a blank tablet" or clean slate.
• The field of biology that studies heredity is called -✓✓Genetics
• What are the 3 prenatal stages? -✓✓Germinal, Embryonic, Fetal
• What are teratogens? -✓✓environmental influences or agents that can
damage the embryo or fetus
Examples: drugs taken by mother, and substances that the mother's body
produces, such as Rh-positive antibodies
• Piaget's stages of cognitive development -✓✓sensorimotor,
preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
• Examples of Social Cognition -✓✓Observing others, reading, viewing
characters in the media, watching parents cook, clean, or repair a broken
appliance
• Microsystem -✓✓involves the interactions of the child and other people in
the immediate setting, such as the home, the school, or the peer group
• Macrosystem -✓✓involves the interaction of children with the beliefs,
values, expectations, and lifestyles of their cultural settings
• What did Skinner introduce? -✓✓The key concept of positive and
negative reinforcement in operant conditioning
• What is classical conditioning? -✓✓is a simple from of learning in which
an originally neutral stimulus comes to bring forth by a second stimulus as
a result of being paired repeatedly with the second stimulus
,• What is Vgotsky zone theory? -✓✓refers to the range of tasks that a child
can carry out with the help of someone who is more skilled, as in an
apprenticeship
• What are the five stages of psychosexual development? -✓✓Oral, Anal,
Phallic, Latency, and Genital
• What does Locke believe about behavior? -✓✓That social approval and
disapproval are powerful shapers of behavior.
• What is Rh incompatibility? -✓✓Antibodies produced by the mother are
transmitted to a fetus or newborn infant and cause brain damage or death
• Where is Rh found? -✓✓is a blood protein found in the red blood cells of
some individuals
• What occurs in Meosis? -✓✓Sperm and ova(egg cells) are produced
Also called reduction division
46 chromosomes within the cell nucleus first line up into 23 pairs
When the cell divides one member of each pair goes to each newly formed
cell.
• What is sickle cell anemia caused by? -✓✓caused by a recessive gene
• Who is sickle cell anemia most common in? -✓✓African Americans
• Effects of sickle cell anemia? -✓✓impair cognitive skills and academic
performance
Painful and swollen joints, jaundice, and potentially fatal conditions such as
pneumonia, stoke, and heart and kidney failure.
• What is REM sleep? -✓✓characterized by rapid eye movements that can
be observed beneath closed lids(neonates spend about 1/2 their time
sleeping) by two-three yrs. rem sleep drops off about 20-25%
, • What do scientists believe about REM sleep? -✓✓suggests that the brain
requires a certain amount of stimulation for the creation of proteins that are
involved in the development of neurons and synapses
• Methods of Childbirth -✓✓Anesthesia
Prepared Childbirth
C-Section
• What is the Lamaze Method? -✓✓prepared childbirth
women engage in breathing and relaxation exercises that lessen fear and
pain and distract them from discomfort
• What are Braxton Hicks contractions? -✓✓They are preterm or false
labor contractions
Serve to tone the muscles that will be used during delivery
• Percentage of women that experience PPD? -✓✓70% of new mothers
have periods of tearfulness, sadness, and irritability, which can be referred
to as "baby blues"
• What causes PPD? -✓✓Hormonal changes that accompany pregnancy
and follow delivery
• Name the tests done on newborns? -✓✓Apgar Scale-based on 5 signs of
health; apperance, pulse, grimace, activity level, and respiratory effort.
Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale-measures neonates
reflexes and other behavior patterns
• What are reflexes? -✓✓simple, automatic, stereotypical responses that
are elicited by certain types of stimulation
• Rooting Reflex -✓✓the baby turns the head and mouth toward a stimulus
that strokes the cheek, chin, or corner of the mouth
• Moro Reflex -✓✓the back arches and the legs and arms are flung out and
then brought back toward the chest, with the arms in a hugging motion
• Grasping Reflex -✓✓Also called the Palmer Reflex
