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In 1917, this well known psychoanalytic theorist proposed that personality has three structures: the id, the ego, and the superego.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
100
These are units of hereditary information composed of deoxyribonucleic acid that direct cells to reproduce themselves and manufacture the proteins that maintain life.
What are genes?
100
This period occurs approximately two to eight weeks after conceptions in which the rate of cell differentiation intensifies, support systems for the cells form, and organs appear.
What is the embryonic period?
100
These are cluster abnormalities and problems that appear in the offspring of mothers who drink alcohol heavily during pregnancy.
What are fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD)?
100
This is a widely used method to assess the health of a newborn one and five minutes after birth, evaluating the infant's heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, body color, and reflect irritability.
What is the Apgar Scale?
200
This is an approach used to obtain accurate information by conceptualizing the problem, collecting data, drawing conclusions, and revising research conclusions and theories.
What is a scientific method?
200
This consists of observable characteristics including height weight, weight, and hair color as well as, psychological characteristics.
What is a phenotype?
200
This is the process of organ formation that takes place during the first two months of prenatal development.
What is organogenesis?
200
In addition to preterm births, low birth weights and respiratory problems, consuming this during pregnancy has been identified as a risk factor for the development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in offspring.
What is nicotine (or maternal smoking)?
200
This a close physical and psychological connection between parents and their newborn in the period shortly after birth.
What is bonding?
300
This is a sociocultural cognitive theory that emphasizes how culture and social interaction guide cognitive development.
What is Vygotsky's theory?
300
This is a genetic disorder that affects the red blood cells and occurs most often in people of African descent.
What is sickle-cell anemia?
300
The embryonic period begins when this attaches to the uterine wall and later develops into the embryo.
What is a blastocyst?
300
Infants whose mothers had an addiction to this showed several behavioral difficulties at birth such as withdrawal symptoms, impaired motor control, and attention deficits that may appear later in development.
What is heroin?
300
One of two popular NICU interventions that involves skin-to-skin contact.
What is kangaroo care?
400
This stresses that behavior is strongly influenced by biology, tied to evolution, and is characterized by critical or sensitive periods.
What is ethology?
400
***DAILY DOUBLE*** Males with this genetic disorder have undeveloped testes, and the usually have enlarged breasts and become tall.
What is Klinefelter syndrome?
400
This is the middle layer of cells, which becomes the circulatory system, bones, muscles, excretory system, and reproductive system.
What is the mesoderm?
400
These can produce defects in offspring by crossing the placental barrier or they can cause damage during birth such as rubella, syphilis, or genital herpes.
What are maternal diseases?
400
Researchers have found that this can affect the way mothers interact with their infants and cause them to be less likely to respond to their infants' efforts to get attention and more likely provide less healthy feeding and sleeping practices for their newborns.
What is postpartum depression?
500
This Swiss developmental psychologist's theory consisted of four stages of cognitive theory: Sensorimotor Stage, Preoperational Stage, Concrete Operational Stage, and Formal Operational Stage.
Who is Jean Piaget?
500
This genetic disorder results from a recessive gene and occurs about once in every 10,000 to 20,000 births and is treated by a diet that prevents an excess accumulation of a specific type of amino acid.
What is phenylketonuria (PKU)?
500
Developing in the germinal period, these cells later provide nutrition and support for the embryo.
What are trophoblasts?
500
This is an incompatible blood type where should fetus have the surface marker and the mother does not, the mother's immune system may produce antibodies that will attack the fetus.
What is an RH factor?
500
***DAILY DOUBLE*** These two types of hormones that protect the fetus in the event of oxygen deficiency, are secreted in stressful circumstances and increase the heart's pumping activity, speed up heart rate, channel blood flow to the brain, and raise the blood-sugar level.
What are adranline and noradrenaline?