Exam

Question 0

Traits that are passed to a child from blood relatives

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Heredity

Question 1

Gradual process through which babies become adults

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Development

Question 2

Conditions and situations that surround and affect a child

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Environment

Question 3

Brain cells that send and receive electrical impulses throughout the brain

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Neurons

Question 4

Network of brain fibers

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Wiring

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Brain’s ability to weed out unused connections

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Pruning

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Prime period in a child’s life for developing a particular skill

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Window of Opportunity

Question 7

Brain’s ablity to change or adapt to the environment

Answer 7

Brain Plascticity

Question 8

Results of studies that describe how humans are alike

Answer 8

Principles of Growth and Development

Question 9

Learnings or skills in growth and development that follow one another in a set order

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Sequenced Steps

Question 10

Time when a person can learn a new task because the body is physically ready, caregivers encourage and support, and the child feels a strong desire to learn

Answer 10

Teachable moments

Question 11

Skills a person should master at a certain stage in life

Answer 11

Developmental tasks

Question 12

Families with members from 2 or more cultural groups

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Multicultural Families

Question 13

A situation in which divorced parents share child care and decision making responsibilities regarding their children

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Joint custody

Question 14

A state funded or private agency licensed by the state to handle adoptions

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Adoption agency

Question 15

Type of adoption arranged by the birthparents, adoptive family, and usually one person

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Independent adoption

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An adoption in which a child bought or sold

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Illegal market adoption

Question 17

Stages that depict family changes

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Family Life Cycle

Question 18

Type of parenting style in which parents gice children almost no guidelines or rules

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Permissive

Question 19

Words and actions parents use to influence their child’s behavior

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Guidance

Question 20

Part of guidance concerned with use of methods and techniqus to teach children self-control

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Discipline

Question 21

Resources used to meet child-related costs that could have been used to meet other goals

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Indirect costs

Question 22

Form of discipline in which parents threaten children or suggest some form of parent/child seperation

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Love withdrawal

Question 23

Having more than one culture represented among a group of people, such as a nation

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Cultural diversity