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Obesity - causes and interventions - correct answers Causes: Lack of knowledge about healthy diet, buying high fat food, low-cost foods, location that lacks access to healthy foods, family stress, malnourishment in early years of life, parental feeding practices ,insufficient sleep, and lack of physical activity. Heredity just causes a tendency to be obese. Children that were undernourished in early years are more likely to be overweight. Interventions: Can be helped by exercise, meal control,...

Tammy's father is an exceptional gymnast. When Tammy was just a toddler, her father believed that Tammy already showed great promise as a gymnast. Tammy's father probably believes that athletic ability is mostly determined by - correct answers nature Arnold Gesell - correct answers was among the first to make knowledge about child development meaningful to parents Dr. Faulkner believes that directly observable events—stimuli and responses—are the appropriate focus of the study of...

observable characteristics of self-concept - correct answers appearance, possessions, behavior self-concept - correct answers typical emotions and attitudes the richness of life-story narratives helps children understand themselves asserting rights to objects ("Mine!") helps define boundaries to self parallel play - correct answers plays near other children with similar toys, but does not try to influence them associative play - correct answers engage in separate activities...

When does prenatal development begin? When does it end? How many weeks does it typically last? - correct answers Begins with fertilization Ends with birth Lasts 38-40 weeks What are the 3 periods of prenatal development? What is the term for the developing organism in each period? What's the time period for each? - correct answers1. germinal period -developing organism: zygote -time period: conception to 2 weeks 2. embryonic period -developing organism: embryo -week 3-8 ...

Bart, and 11-month old, is playing on the floor of his room when his older brother steers a remote-control car (that Bert has never seen) toward him. Bart immediately looks up to his father, who is on the verge of yelling, "Stop, it's going to hit Bart." Bart then breaks into quickly-flowing tears. Bart has engaged: A. Emotional Regulation B. Self-Socialization C. Display Rules D. Social Referencing - correct answersD. Social Referencing Compared to supportive parents, parent...

(ch 5) according to critics of the nativist view of cognitive development, which is a possible alternative explanation of infants' longer looking times during experiments? - correct answers infants' attention may be drawn to perceptual features of the stimulus, rather than reflecting their innate expectations (ch 5) fifteen-month-old keisha watches her caregiver try to move a stack of blocks. but, the caregiver accidentally knocks the stack of blocks over. keisha then tries to move the st...

Kagan study focus - correct answers Focus on approach and withdrawal to discrepant events. Find biological basis of temperament. Kagan hypothesis - correct answers Inherited physiological mechanisms underlie individual differences in this dimension of temperament Hippocampus - correct answers Detects discrepant (unfamiliar) events Amygdala - correct answers Emotional response to discrepant events; autonomic changes Kagan: Role of biology in temperament - correct answers Extent to wh...

Infant and Child Development Exam 2 (michaelchen5) Review Questions And Answers

Height and weight - correct answers____ & ______ gains are greater during the first 2 years than at any other time after birth. Body fat develops quickly during the first nine months, whereas muscle development is slow and gradual. Cephalocaudal & proximodistal trends - correct answers Parts of the body grow at different rates, following ___ & ___ _____'s, resulting in changing body proportions GIrls; African American;C Caucasian - correct answers___ are ahead of boys in physical ...

ch 10: Empathy ________ a sympathetic, prosocial behavior because ________. - correct answers does not always prompt; poor emotion regulators can be overwhelmed by their feelings when faced with someone in need Four-year-old Rayna says, "I'm Rayna. I'm a girl. I can run fast. I like yellow." Her statements show that Rayna is beginning to develop ________. - correct answers a self-concept Four children in LaShonda's preschool class act out a make-believe theme during their pr...