AP Psych 9 weeks test questions with
100% correct answers
nature vs nurture - correct answer ✔✔How does our genetic inheritance (our nature) interact with our
experiences (our nurture) to influence our development?
continuity and stages - correct answer ✔✔What parts of development are gradual and continuous?
What parts change abruptly in separate stages?
stability or change - correct answer ✔✔Which of our traits persist through life? How do we change as we
age?
cognitive development - correct answer ✔✔all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing,
remembering, and communicating
social development - correct answer ✔✔the way in which individuals' interactions with others and their
social relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of life
physical development - correct answer ✔✔lifespan development that examines growth and changes in
the body and brain, the senses, motor skills, and health and wellness
zygote - correct answer ✔✔he fertilized egg; enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops
into an embryo
embryo - correct answer ✔✔the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization
through the second month
fetus - correct answer ✔✔the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth
, Why do infants prefer their mom's voice over their dad's? - correct answer ✔✔fetus is responsive to
sound by 6th months; hears mothers muffled voice more often
teratogens - correct answer ✔✔agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or
fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
fetal alcohol syndrome - correct answer ✔✔physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a
pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, can cause out-of-proportion head and abnormal
facial features
addiction and pregnancy - correct answer ✔✔attention, visual perceptual abilities, and behavior
problems (drugs), poor physical growth, lower intelligence, attention problems, and academic
underachievement (alcohol)
rooting relfex - correct answer ✔✔reflex in baby's to open their mouths to feed when touched near the
mouth
habituation - correct answer ✔✔decreasing
responsiveness with repeated
stimulation
facelike images - correct answer ✔✔
pruning - brain cells in babys - correct answer ✔✔shuts down unused neural connections and
strengthens others
frontal lobe- 3 to 6 years - correct answer ✔✔continues to develop, myelin sheath grows for faster
processing
maturation - correct answer ✔✔biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior,
relatively uninfluenced by experience
100% correct answers
nature vs nurture - correct answer ✔✔How does our genetic inheritance (our nature) interact with our
experiences (our nurture) to influence our development?
continuity and stages - correct answer ✔✔What parts of development are gradual and continuous?
What parts change abruptly in separate stages?
stability or change - correct answer ✔✔Which of our traits persist through life? How do we change as we
age?
cognitive development - correct answer ✔✔all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing,
remembering, and communicating
social development - correct answer ✔✔the way in which individuals' interactions with others and their
social relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of life
physical development - correct answer ✔✔lifespan development that examines growth and changes in
the body and brain, the senses, motor skills, and health and wellness
zygote - correct answer ✔✔he fertilized egg; enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops
into an embryo
embryo - correct answer ✔✔the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization
through the second month
fetus - correct answer ✔✔the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth
, Why do infants prefer their mom's voice over their dad's? - correct answer ✔✔fetus is responsive to
sound by 6th months; hears mothers muffled voice more often
teratogens - correct answer ✔✔agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or
fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
fetal alcohol syndrome - correct answer ✔✔physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a
pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, can cause out-of-proportion head and abnormal
facial features
addiction and pregnancy - correct answer ✔✔attention, visual perceptual abilities, and behavior
problems (drugs), poor physical growth, lower intelligence, attention problems, and academic
underachievement (alcohol)
rooting relfex - correct answer ✔✔reflex in baby's to open their mouths to feed when touched near the
mouth
habituation - correct answer ✔✔decreasing
responsiveness with repeated
stimulation
facelike images - correct answer ✔✔
pruning - brain cells in babys - correct answer ✔✔shuts down unused neural connections and
strengthens others
frontal lobe- 3 to 6 years - correct answer ✔✔continues to develop, myelin sheath grows for faster
processing
maturation - correct answer ✔✔biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior,
relatively uninfluenced by experience
