Child Development 135 - Child Growth and Development » Winter 2022 » Quiz I Chapters 1-4

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Question #1
The ____ is the basic unit for the transmission of heredity.
A.   blood
B.   nucleus
C.   DNA
D.   gene
Question #2
What research methodology determines the cause and effect relationship between two variables?
A.   Laboratory
B.   Culture
C.   Hypothesis
D.   Experiment
Question #3
Prenatal Development is composed of three periods or stages that occur in the following order:
A.   Germinal, Zygotic, ad Fraternal
B.   Fetal, Germinal and Embryonic
C.   Germinal, Embryonic and Fetal
Question #4
The Apgar Scale is used to assess a newborn's health and measures:
A.   Alcohol, drug or tobacco exposure
B.   Size including length and weight
C.   How quicly the newborn begins to cry after birth
D.   Color, heartbeat, reflexes, and muscle tone.
Question #5
Human development can be characterized as being:
A.   Behavioral
B.   bicontextual
C.   Interdependence
D.   multicontextual
Question #6
Cross sequential research design is a research design in which the one group of individuals are followed over time, as their development is repeatedly assessed.
A.   False
B.   True
Question #7
Behavioral Teratogens can:
A.   Impair prenatal development resulting in birth defects or death.
B.   Do no harm to the developing organism.
C.   Harm the prenatal brain.
D.   Impair the motor's ability to parent.
Question #8
Polygenic refers to traits that are:
A.   Observable characteristics of a person.
B.   Formed when the egg and sperm come together
C.   Influenced by many genes.
D.   A gene carried on more than one chromosome
Question #9
Anoxia refers to a condition in which a child has been exposed to alcohol before and shows sign of fetal alcohol syndrome.
A.   True
B.   False
Question #10
The science of human development seeks to:
A.   Divide the study of human development into three different domains.
B.   Understand how and why people change or remain the same over time.
C.   Understand how socioeconomic status effects development.
D.   Answer questions about development using observation techniques
Question #11
Genotype is an organisms entire genetic potential and is repeated in almost every cell.
A.   True
B.   False
Question #12
Teratogens include:
A.   Chemicals
B.   All of the options listed.
C.   Medicinal Drugs
D.   Viruses and other diseases
E.   Poor nutrition
Question #13
Very low birth weight refers to a body weight at birth of:
A.   Less than 3lbs. 5ozs.
B.   Less than 7.8 lbs.
C.   Less than 2 lbs. 3ozs.
D.   Less than 5.5 lbs.
Question #14
Behaviorism, Cognitive Theory and Psychodynamic Theory are considered grand theories because they:
A.   Focus on development in the first three years
B.   Were developed by men.
C.   Provide a framework for explaining development.
D.   Have been around a long time.

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