A) Neonates can lift their heads and completely turn over.
B) Neonates are unresponsive to pain and touch.
C) Neonates have less acute senses, but are very responsive.
D) Neonates have very acute senses, but are not yet responsive.
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A) human growth sequence.
B) senescence pattern.
C) adaptation sequence.
D) zone of proximal development.
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A) Moro reflex
B) rooting reflex
C) Babinski reflex
D) grasping reflex
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A) sadness.
B) general excitement.
C) joy.
D) anger.
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A) The father is brown-eyed, and the mother is blue-eyed.
B) The father is blue-eyed, and the mother is brown-eyed.
C) Both father and mother are brown-eyed.
D) Each of these could produce a blue-eyed child.
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A) Izard believes that emotions are "hard-wired" by heredity and related to evolution.
B) Smiling is one of a baby's most common reactions.
C) Smiling probably helps babies survive by inviting parents to care for them.
D) Izard believes that infants can express several basic emotions as early as two weeks of age.
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A) physical growth and development of the body, brain, and nervous system.
B) organism's ability to adapt to changing conditions.
C) sum of all the external conditions affecting development.
D) transmission of physical and psychological characteristics from parent to offspring.
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A) dominant
B) recessive
C) polygenic
D) sex-linked
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A) imprinting.
B) enrichment.
C) assimilation.
D) vicarious learning.
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A) secure attachment.
B) insecure-ambivalent attachment.
C) insecure-avoidant attachment.
D) separation anxiety disorder.
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A) control their own development.
B) are active participants in their development.
C) are controlled in their development by parents.
D) control their physical but not social development.
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A) infant monkeys preferred the terry cloth surrogate only when it was the source of food.
B) the wire surrogate was preferred because of its association with food.
C) when frightened, the infant monkeys ran to the terry cloth surrogates for security and comfort.
D) the attachment shown to the wire feeding mothers was identical to that displayed toward real monkey mothers.
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A) Just hours after they are born, babies begin to prefer seeing their mother's face rather than a stranger's.
B) At six months old, babies are able to recognize categories of objects that differ in shape or color.
C) At age seven months, babies are able to see as well as their parents.
D) At nine months old, babies are able to tell the difference between dogs and birds or other groups of animals.
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A) The basic human emotions follow a pattern closely tied to maturation.
B) The basic human emotions appear to be unlearned.
C) According to Bridges, all the basic human emotions appear before age two.
D) Most researchers who study emotional development believe that anger is the only basic emotion that newborn infants clearly express.
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A) A mother usually does not feel attached to her baby until the baby is around two months old.
B) For the first couple of months, babies respond more or less equally to everyone.
C) By two or three months, most babies prefer their mothers to strangers.
D) By around seven months, babies generally become truly attached to their mothers, crawling after her if they can.
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A) The day care experience will weaken her son's attachment to her.
B) Her son will begin to exhibit behavior problems that he did not previously have.
C) Her son will experience increases in social and cognitive skills.
D) Her son's language skills will decrease.
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A) fetal alcohol syndrome
B) sickle-cell anemia
C) hemophilia
D) muscular dystrophy
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A) usually involve crises and conflict.
B) are almost always characterized by emotional upheaval.
C) dramatic but temporary changes in behavior.
D) can permanently alter the course of development.
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A) ambivalent
B) avoidant
C) secure
D) independent
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A) observed how rats care for their young in crowded environments.
B) used the stranger situation with human mothers and their infants.
C) observed whether mothers could coax their infants to crawl across the visual cliff.
D) separated baby rhesus monkeys from their mothers at birth and replaced them with wire and terry cloth surrogate mothers.
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