Chapter One
_____ skills involve small muscle movements such as cutting with scissors, typing on a keyboard, and writing with a pen or pencil.
Fine motor
A possible answer is called a _____.
hypothesis
A negative bias
prejudice
______ is the delivery of a deceased baby.
Stillbirth
Developmental changes are relatively slow, but steady.
Continuity
______ are the part of your DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) molecule and are found in every one of your body cells.
Genes
_________ is paid or unpaid time off from work that fathers may take after the birth or adoption of a child.
Paternity leave
_________ are doctors who specialize in pregnancy and childbirth.
Obstetricians
All of a person’s surroundings and the people in them.
Environment
______ behaviors are the things people do and say or the way they act.
Observable
___________ is a legal agreement in which both parents provide care and make decisions for the child.
Joint custody
Babies are considered low birthweight when they weigh less than _____ pounds.
5.8
____ development refers to changes in the way a person’s social relationships, feelings, social skills, self-esteem, and ways of coping with situations change over time.
Socio-emotional
_____ is the belief that people’s behavior is determined by forces in the environment that are beyond their control,
Behaviorism
_________ is a person’s identity with a particular racial, national, or cultural group and support of that group’s customs, beliefs, and language.
Ethnicity
___________ is prenatal exposure to alcohol.
Fetal alcohol syndrome
As humans, you think, perceive, sense, memorize, recall, reason, problem solve, and imagine. These actions or processes involving thinking and knowing are called __________.
cognition
Ideas about how people process information, think, and learn are called ______ theories.
cognitive
In the United States, people of different backgrounds, languages, races, ethnicities, religions, and socioeconomic classes live in one society. This is called ____________.
ethnic or cultural diversity
The final stage of the first trimester begins the _____ period.
fetal