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Which of the following cognitive stages occurs in children from birth to approximately two years? -Concrete -Sensorimotor -Preoperational -Formal Sensorimotor What year did Jean Piaget publish his cognitive development Theory? -1950 -1951 -1952 -1953 1952

All of the following are periods of prenatal development exceptpostpartum Lack of prenatal care increases the risk of all of the following exceptchild abuse All of the following have been found to endanger the unborn child except:computer monitors What frequently happens between adolescents and parents?they violate one another's expectations According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, what percentage of American adults above 20 years of age are obese?22%

salient - A police officer visits Ben and Heather's class to discuss safety rules. To attract the children's attention, the officer brings colorful balloons and many jars of bubbles for the children to blow. Later, Heather tells her parents all about the balloons and bubbles but cannot remember any of the safety rules the officer presented. Heather obviously paid more attention to what was: considering combinations of features - Centration inhibits the ability to categorize items because ...

In Bronfenbrenner's ecological-systems model, a hospital in the community is an example of the _____. A) ecosystem B) microsystem C) chronosystem D) exosystem - exosystem 2. A dependent variable is _____. A) the measured variable that may change depending on manipulation of an independent variable B) any unmeasured variable that is uncontrolled within the context of the experiment C) the variable that is intentionally manipulated by the researcher D) an external variable that cannot b...

Chapter 1 - Introduction: - Developmental milestone - An ability achieved by most children at a certain age. Can be physical, connotative, or social. Critical period - Time when development milestone must be learned, if it's ever going to be learned. Sensitive period - Time when a development milestone is best learned. If not it could be learned at a slower rate later on in life. Research Methods - Cross-sectional - Research in different age groups. Longitudinal - Individual data acr...

Abstinence - Refraining from sexual activity. Cesarean Section - Surgical childbirth in which the baby is removed through the abdomen. Contraception - Any method of preventing conception. Ectopic Pregnancy - A dangerous pregnancy that develops in one of the fallopian tubes or anywhere else outside of the uterus. Fertilization - The joining of an ovum and a sperm. Fetus - The infant developing from conception until birth. HIV - The virus that causes AIDS. HPV - Any of over 50 related viru...

After birth, which part of the body grows last using the proximodistal development principal? - feet Which growth pattern explains why an infant's head at birth is one fourth the size of its body length? - cephalocaudal Describe breast feeding - babies have fewer gastrointestinal issues with breast milk than formula the creation of new nerve cells is called - neurogenesis the connection between neurons is called a - synapse who would have the most synapses? - Kara, age 3 Olivia is an i...

salient - A police officer visits Ben and Heather's class to discuss safety rules. To attract the children's attention, the officer brings colorful balloons and many jars of bubbles for the children to blow. Later, Heather tells her parents all about the balloons and bubbles but cannot remember any of the safety rules the officer presented. Heather obviously paid more attention to what was: considering combinations of features - Centration inhibits the ability to categorize items because ...

Chapter 1 - Introduction: - Developmental milestone - An ability achieved by most children at a certain age. Can be physical, connotative, or social. Critical period - Time when development milestone must be learned, if it's ever going to be learned. Sensitive period - Time when a development milestone is best learned. If not it could be learned at a slower rate later on in life. Research Methods - Cross-sectional - Research in different age groups. Longitudinal - Individual data acr...

Abstinence - Refraining from sexual activity. Cesarean Section - Surgical childbirth in which the baby is removed through the abdomen. Contraception - Any method of preventing conception. Ectopic Pregnancy - A dangerous pregnancy that develops in one of the fallopian tubes or anywhere else outside of the uterus. Fertilization - The joining of an ovum and a