PSYC 230 EXAMS TEST PAPER UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Thalidomide Example - ✔✔Drug for morning sickness causing limb abnormalities
✔✔Fetal Period - ✔✔8 weeks to birth
✔✔Viability - ✔✔Earliest survival outside womb (~22-24 weeks)
✔✔Fetal Behavior - ✔✔Kicking, stretching, movement
✔✔Prenatal Environment - ✔✔Environmental influences begin before birth
✔✔Prenatal Malnutrition Effects - ✔✔Higher obesity risk, hypertension, reduced glucose
tolerance later in life
✔✔Labor - ✔✔Uterine contractions that change cervix
✔✔Stage 1 Labor - ✔✔Contractions begin and cervix dilates
✔✔Stage 2 Labor - ✔✔Baby passes through cervix and birth canal
✔✔Stage 3 Labor - ✔✔Placenta detaches and is expelled
✔✔Baby Born En Caul - ✔✔Baby born inside intact amniotic sac
✔✔Placenta Wound Size - ✔✔About the size of a dinner plate after birth
✔✔Medical Model of Birth - ✔✔Birth requires monitoring and medical intervention
✔✔Natural Approach to Birth - ✔✔Birth viewed as normal physiological process
✔✔Epidural Effect - ✔✔Limits movement and may slow labor progression
✔✔Doula - ✔✔Professional trained to support laboring women
✔✔Maternal Mortality Disparity - ✔✔Women of color are about 3x more likely to die
from pregnancy-related causes
✔✔Reasons for Health Inequities - ✔✔Systemic racism, unequal treatment, social
stress ("weathering")
, ✔✔Solutions to Maternal Health Inequities - ✔✔Culturally competent care, workforce
diversity, policy interventions
✔✔Anoxia - ✔✔Oxygen deprivation at birth
✔✔Cerebral Palsy - ✔✔Motor disability often from birth injury and genetic sensitivity
✔✔Prematurity - ✔✔Birth before 38 weeks of pregnancy
✔✔Preeclampsia - ✔✔High blood pressure during pregnancy
✔✔Jaundice - ✔✔Liver cannot process bilirubin properly
✔✔Small for Gestational Age (SGA) - ✔✔Smaller than expected size for age in womb
✔✔Low Birth Weight - ✔✔Often caused by maternal illness, malnutrition, drug use, or
multiple births
✔✔Apgar Test - ✔✔Newborn assessment scored 0-2 on five components
✔✔Apgar Components - ✔✔Activity, Pulse, Grimace, Appearance, Respiration
✔✔Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale - ✔✔Assessment of autonomic, motor,
state, and social functioning
✔✔Kangaroo Care - ✔✔Skin-to-skin contact promoting bonding
✔✔Bonding - ✔✔Emotional connection between caregiver and infant
✔✔Oxytocin - ✔✔Hormone associated with bonding
✔✔Newborn Feeding Frequency - ✔✔About 8-12 times per day
✔✔Newborn Stomach Size - ✔✔Day 1 cherry → Day 3 walnut → Week 1 apricot →
Week 2 large egg
✔✔Colostrum - ✔✔First breast milk, yellow and nutrient rich
✔✔Breastfeeding Benefits - ✔✔Antibodies, disease protection, emotional bonding,
adaptive milk composition
✔✔Stunting - ✔✔Low height for age due to chronic malnutrition
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Thalidomide Example - ✔✔Drug for morning sickness causing limb abnormalities
✔✔Fetal Period - ✔✔8 weeks to birth
✔✔Viability - ✔✔Earliest survival outside womb (~22-24 weeks)
✔✔Fetal Behavior - ✔✔Kicking, stretching, movement
✔✔Prenatal Environment - ✔✔Environmental influences begin before birth
✔✔Prenatal Malnutrition Effects - ✔✔Higher obesity risk, hypertension, reduced glucose
tolerance later in life
✔✔Labor - ✔✔Uterine contractions that change cervix
✔✔Stage 1 Labor - ✔✔Contractions begin and cervix dilates
✔✔Stage 2 Labor - ✔✔Baby passes through cervix and birth canal
✔✔Stage 3 Labor - ✔✔Placenta detaches and is expelled
✔✔Baby Born En Caul - ✔✔Baby born inside intact amniotic sac
✔✔Placenta Wound Size - ✔✔About the size of a dinner plate after birth
✔✔Medical Model of Birth - ✔✔Birth requires monitoring and medical intervention
✔✔Natural Approach to Birth - ✔✔Birth viewed as normal physiological process
✔✔Epidural Effect - ✔✔Limits movement and may slow labor progression
✔✔Doula - ✔✔Professional trained to support laboring women
✔✔Maternal Mortality Disparity - ✔✔Women of color are about 3x more likely to die
from pregnancy-related causes
✔✔Reasons for Health Inequities - ✔✔Systemic racism, unequal treatment, social
stress ("weathering")
, ✔✔Solutions to Maternal Health Inequities - ✔✔Culturally competent care, workforce
diversity, policy interventions
✔✔Anoxia - ✔✔Oxygen deprivation at birth
✔✔Cerebral Palsy - ✔✔Motor disability often from birth injury and genetic sensitivity
✔✔Prematurity - ✔✔Birth before 38 weeks of pregnancy
✔✔Preeclampsia - ✔✔High blood pressure during pregnancy
✔✔Jaundice - ✔✔Liver cannot process bilirubin properly
✔✔Small for Gestational Age (SGA) - ✔✔Smaller than expected size for age in womb
✔✔Low Birth Weight - ✔✔Often caused by maternal illness, malnutrition, drug use, or
multiple births
✔✔Apgar Test - ✔✔Newborn assessment scored 0-2 on five components
✔✔Apgar Components - ✔✔Activity, Pulse, Grimace, Appearance, Respiration
✔✔Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale - ✔✔Assessment of autonomic, motor,
state, and social functioning
✔✔Kangaroo Care - ✔✔Skin-to-skin contact promoting bonding
✔✔Bonding - ✔✔Emotional connection between caregiver and infant
✔✔Oxytocin - ✔✔Hormone associated with bonding
✔✔Newborn Feeding Frequency - ✔✔About 8-12 times per day
✔✔Newborn Stomach Size - ✔✔Day 1 cherry → Day 3 walnut → Week 1 apricot →
Week 2 large egg
✔✔Colostrum - ✔✔First breast milk, yellow and nutrient rich
✔✔Breastfeeding Benefits - ✔✔Antibodies, disease protection, emotional bonding,
adaptive milk composition
✔✔Stunting - ✔✔Low height for age due to chronic malnutrition
