Clemson PSYC 3400 Exam 1 Questions With Complete
Solutions
2-3 months prefer simple or complex stimuli? correct answers
Complex
3 medical symptoms of SBS correct answers Brain swelling
(cerebral edema), brain bleeding (cerebral hematoma), bleeding
around the eyes (retinal hemorrhage)
5 things measured with APGAR correct answers Appearance,
pulse, grimace, activity, respiration
Accommodation correct answers Adapting one's current
understandings (schemas) to incorporate new learned
information
Age-graded influences correct answers Biologically drive
example: puberty, menopause, etc.
Apoptosis correct answers Cell death
Are there a lot of neurons and synapses at birth? correct answers
LOTS of neurons, few synapses
Assimilation correct answers Interpreting our new experiences
in terms of our existing schemas
Autosimulation Theory correct answers The idea that brain
activity during REM sleep in the fetus and newborn facilitates
the early development of the visual system
,(making up for lack of simulation throughout the day)
Axons correct answers Sends messages
Babinski reflex correct answers Infants fanning out their toes
Benefits of breastfeeding correct answers Mother produces
different consistency of nutrients for their own individual baby,
more easily digested, less packing, lower risk of SIDS, some
immunity to childhood diseases (ear infections are big), enhance
cognitive growth, produces endorphins within the mother,
emotional advantages between mother and child, helps shrink
uterus, hormones help act as form of birth control
Benefits of skin-to-skin at birth correct answers Encourages
milk production, helps with first latch, regulates newborn body
temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, and helps with physical
growth, enhances bonding
Blytocyst correct answers Fertilized egg becomes ... and ...
travels to and implants in uterus
Braxton Hicks contractions correct answers The uterine is
getting exercise, muscles are contracting and they are getting
firm
Can newborns experience pain? correct answers Yes, but take
longer to respond
Cannonical babbling correct answers Repeated consonant-
vowel syllables (bababa)
, Cat in the Hat Study (DeCasper & Spence) correct answers Had
the mother read the baby the cat in the hat while pregnant.
Babies exposed to two different womans nipples after they are
born ... the babies then preferred to suck on the nipple in which
they remember hearing the voice from the cat in the hat; This
shows babies can remember things prenatally
Categorical speech perception correct answers Being able to tell
the difference between sounds like ba vs. pa
Causes of multiple births correct answers Fertility drugs, older
age, and racial differences
Classical conditioning correct answers Learns to respond in a
particular way to neutral stimulus that normally does not trigger
that type of response
Cons of an experimental study correct answers Not naturalistic,
hard to control EVERYTHING
Consequences of postpartum on infant correct answers Show
little emotion, act withdrawn, weigh less, slower to walk, have
depression when they grow up
Consequences of postpartum on mother correct answers Display
little emotion and act withdrawn
Consequences of SBS correct answers Brain rotation within the
skull, torn blood vessels (leading to severe medical problems),
long-term disabilities, death
Solutions
2-3 months prefer simple or complex stimuli? correct answers
Complex
3 medical symptoms of SBS correct answers Brain swelling
(cerebral edema), brain bleeding (cerebral hematoma), bleeding
around the eyes (retinal hemorrhage)
5 things measured with APGAR correct answers Appearance,
pulse, grimace, activity, respiration
Accommodation correct answers Adapting one's current
understandings (schemas) to incorporate new learned
information
Age-graded influences correct answers Biologically drive
example: puberty, menopause, etc.
Apoptosis correct answers Cell death
Are there a lot of neurons and synapses at birth? correct answers
LOTS of neurons, few synapses
Assimilation correct answers Interpreting our new experiences
in terms of our existing schemas
Autosimulation Theory correct answers The idea that brain
activity during REM sleep in the fetus and newborn facilitates
the early development of the visual system
,(making up for lack of simulation throughout the day)
Axons correct answers Sends messages
Babinski reflex correct answers Infants fanning out their toes
Benefits of breastfeeding correct answers Mother produces
different consistency of nutrients for their own individual baby,
more easily digested, less packing, lower risk of SIDS, some
immunity to childhood diseases (ear infections are big), enhance
cognitive growth, produces endorphins within the mother,
emotional advantages between mother and child, helps shrink
uterus, hormones help act as form of birth control
Benefits of skin-to-skin at birth correct answers Encourages
milk production, helps with first latch, regulates newborn body
temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, and helps with physical
growth, enhances bonding
Blytocyst correct answers Fertilized egg becomes ... and ...
travels to and implants in uterus
Braxton Hicks contractions correct answers The uterine is
getting exercise, muscles are contracting and they are getting
firm
Can newborns experience pain? correct answers Yes, but take
longer to respond
Cannonical babbling correct answers Repeated consonant-
vowel syllables (bababa)
, Cat in the Hat Study (DeCasper & Spence) correct answers Had
the mother read the baby the cat in the hat while pregnant.
Babies exposed to two different womans nipples after they are
born ... the babies then preferred to suck on the nipple in which
they remember hearing the voice from the cat in the hat; This
shows babies can remember things prenatally
Categorical speech perception correct answers Being able to tell
the difference between sounds like ba vs. pa
Causes of multiple births correct answers Fertility drugs, older
age, and racial differences
Classical conditioning correct answers Learns to respond in a
particular way to neutral stimulus that normally does not trigger
that type of response
Cons of an experimental study correct answers Not naturalistic,
hard to control EVERYTHING
Consequences of postpartum on infant correct answers Show
little emotion, act withdrawn, weigh less, slower to walk, have
depression when they grow up
Consequences of postpartum on mother correct answers Display
little emotion and act withdrawn
Consequences of SBS correct answers Brain rotation within the
skull, torn blood vessels (leading to severe medical problems),
long-term disabilities, death
