Life Span Mid-Term Review (Jersey College)
Questions & Answers (2026/2027) | Complete
Study Guide | Verified Solutions | A+
• What does Rousseau believe about children?. CORRECT ANSWER:
Children come into the world as a tabula rasa- "a blank tablet" or clean
slate.
• The field of biology that studies heredity is called. CORRECT ANSWER:
Genetics
• What are the 3 prenatal stages?. CORRECT ANSWER: Germinal,
Embryonic, Fetal
• What are teratogens?. CORRECT ANSWER: 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. CORRECT ANSWER:
sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
• Examples of Social Cognition. CORRECT ANSWER: Observing others,
reading, viewing characters in the media, watching parents cook, clean, or
repair a broken appliance
• Microsystem. CORRECT ANSWER: involves the interactions of the child
and other people in the immediate setting, such as the home, the school, or
the peer group
• Macrosystem. CORRECT ANSWER: involves the interaction of children
with the beliefs, values, expectations, and lifestyles of their cultural settings
• What did Skinner introduce?. CORRECT ANSWER: The key concept of
positive and negative reinforcement in operant conditioning
• What is classical conditioning?. CORRECT ANSWER: 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?. CORRECT ANSWER: 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?. CORRECT
ANSWER: Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, and Genital
• What does Locke believe about behavior?. CORRECT ANSWER: That
social approval and disapproval are powerful shapers of behavior.
• What is Rh incompatibility?. CORRECT ANSWER: Antibodies produced
by the mother are transmitted to a fetus or newborn infant and cause brain
damage or death
• Where is Rh found?. CORRECT ANSWER: is a blood protein found in the
red blood cells of some individuals
• What occurs in Meosis?. CORRECT ANSWER: 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?. CORRECT ANSWER: caused by
a recessive gene
• Who is sickle cell anemia most common in?. CORRECT ANSWER:
African Americans
• Effects of sickle cell anemia?. CORRECT ANSWER: impair cognitive
skills and academic performance
Painful and swollen joints, jaundice, and potentially fatal conditions such as
pneumonia, stoke, and heart and kidney failure.
Questions & Answers (2026/2027) | Complete
Study Guide | Verified Solutions | A+
• What does Rousseau believe about children?. CORRECT ANSWER:
Children come into the world as a tabula rasa- "a blank tablet" or clean
slate.
• The field of biology that studies heredity is called. CORRECT ANSWER:
Genetics
• What are the 3 prenatal stages?. CORRECT ANSWER: Germinal,
Embryonic, Fetal
• What are teratogens?. CORRECT ANSWER: 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. CORRECT ANSWER:
sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
• Examples of Social Cognition. CORRECT ANSWER: Observing others,
reading, viewing characters in the media, watching parents cook, clean, or
repair a broken appliance
• Microsystem. CORRECT ANSWER: involves the interactions of the child
and other people in the immediate setting, such as the home, the school, or
the peer group
• Macrosystem. CORRECT ANSWER: involves the interaction of children
with the beliefs, values, expectations, and lifestyles of their cultural settings
• What did Skinner introduce?. CORRECT ANSWER: The key concept of
positive and negative reinforcement in operant conditioning
• What is classical conditioning?. CORRECT ANSWER: 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?. CORRECT ANSWER: 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?. CORRECT
ANSWER: Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, and Genital
• What does Locke believe about behavior?. CORRECT ANSWER: That
social approval and disapproval are powerful shapers of behavior.
• What is Rh incompatibility?. CORRECT ANSWER: Antibodies produced
by the mother are transmitted to a fetus or newborn infant and cause brain
damage or death
• Where is Rh found?. CORRECT ANSWER: is a blood protein found in the
red blood cells of some individuals
• What occurs in Meosis?. CORRECT ANSWER: 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?. CORRECT ANSWER: caused by
a recessive gene
• Who is sickle cell anemia most common in?. CORRECT ANSWER:
African Americans
• Effects of sickle cell anemia?. CORRECT ANSWER: impair cognitive
skills and academic performance
Painful and swollen joints, jaundice, and potentially fatal conditions such as
pneumonia, stoke, and heart and kidney failure.
