PSY 203 EXAM 3 Revision Exam Questions And 100% Accurate Answers.
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What area of psychology studies the changes that occur in people as they age from conception to death? - Answer Developmental Psych
What type of research design follows one group of participants over time as they age? - Answer Longitudinal Design
Describe the cross-sectional research de...
PSY 203 EXAM 3 Revision Exam
Questions And 100% Accurate Answers.
What area of psychology studies the changes that occur in people as they age from conception to death?
- Answer Developmental Psych
What type of research design follows one group of participants over time as they age? - Answer
Longitudinal Design
Describe the cross-sectional research design - Answer Study people of varying ages at one point in
time.
What is a disadvantage of the longitudinal design? - Answer Participants may drop out, loss of interest,
death, etc.
________________ Refers to heredity and _______________ refers to environmental influences -
Answer Nature: Heredity, Nurture: Environmental
How does the text define genetics? - Answer The science of inherited traits.
What is a special molecule that contains the genetic material of the organism? - Answer DNA
How many pairs of chromosomes are normally in each cell of the human body? - Answer 23 out of 46
How are diseases that are carried by recessive genes inherited? - Answer inherits two recessive genes -
one from each parent
What is the cause of Down Syndrome? - Answer Extra chromosome on the 21st pair.
What is a a Zygote? - Answer fertilized egg
, Describe the way that monozygotic twins occur? - Answer Identical Twins from one fertilized egg
Describe the way that dizygotic twins occur? - Answer fraternal, each twin from separate egg and
separate firm
Define critical periods in development? - Answer Times during which certain environmental influences
can have an impact on the development of the infant.
What is a teratogen? - Answer Toxic substances that causes birth defect
Describe some of the possible effects of fetal alcohol syndrome FAS - Answer Stunted growth, facial
deformities, and brain damage, mentally challenged
What are infant reflexes? - Answer Sucking, swallowing, grasping, reflex
What are some visual preferences that infants have at birth? Do they prefer simple or complex patterns?
- Answer They prefer complex patters; three dimensions rather than 2, and human faces.
Know the correct order of Piaget's stages of cognitive development - Answer 1. Sensorimotor Stage :
infant uses its senses and motor abilities to interact with objects in the environment
2. Preoperational Stage: preschool child learns to use language as a means of exploring the world
3. Concrete Operations Stage: school-age child becomes capable of logical thought processes but is not
yet capable of abstract thinking
4. Formal Operations Stage: adolescent becomes capable of abstract thinking.
Explain Piaget's concept of object permanence - Answer Developing at 6 to 8 months, awareness that
objects continue to exist after they disappear from view
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