In what ways does the hypothalamus help to regulate the body’s internal environment?
Correct answer D. All of these
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What are the basic units of the nervous system that carry out its functions called?
Correct answer D. Neurons
Which of these brain areas is important for speech?
Correct answer C. Wernicke’s area
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What is the brain’s ability to let one area take over the function of another damaged area called?
Correct answer C. Plasticity
What is the junction where a sending neuron’s axon communicates with a receiving neuron called?
Correct answer A. Synapse
Who is known for describing psychological development across the entire lifespan?
Correct answer B. Erik Erikson
If the gene for blue eyes is recessive and a child has blue eyes, which of the following must be true?
Correct answer A. Each parent has at least one blue-eye gene
What is the relationship between a child’s intellectual development and the age at which they first walk?
Correct answer C. Nonexistent
When a child changes an existing schema to fit the features of a new stimulus, what is the process called?
Correct answer A. accommodation
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A child sees two identical balls of clay, watches one being rolled into a rod, and is asked which has more clay. What understanding is being tested?
Correct answer B. Conservation of substance
Infants tend to put every new object into their mouths. Which Piagetian process does this illustrate?
Correct answer D. Assimilation
In Piaget’s theory, what is the process called when a young child relates something new that they see to something they already know?
Correct answer C. assimilation
According to Kohlberg, what determines morality at the most primitive level of moral development?
Correct answer A. Reward and punishment
According to Piaget, in which stage can a child represent things with words and images but not yet reason logically?
Correct answer B. Preoperational
When a child becomes able to represent the world internally through symbols, which of Piaget’s stages begins?
Correct answer B. preoperational
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What is the developing child correctly called from the third to the eighth week of pregnancy?
Correct answer B. Embryo
Identical twins raised apart who have similar IQs are cited as evidence for the contribution of what to intelligence?
Correct answer C. Heredity
Which maternal behaviour has been found to be strongly correlated with premature birth?
Correct answer D. smoking
Which pairing of theorist and stage theory is incorrect?
Correct answer B. Kohlberg – physiological
Who is commonly called the father of developmental psychology?
Correct answer A. G. Stanley Hall