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life span all ch. terms from other professor Flashcards

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what is panic disorder

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a anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent unexpected panic attacks

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what is agoraphobia?

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fear of open, crowded spaces

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what is phobic disorder

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irrational, exaggerated fear of an object or situation

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extensive body piercing, drug abuse and other kinds of delinquency, stress, hostility, beleif that it is acceptable to kill oneself are signs of _____ in adolescence

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sucidie warnings

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what 2 role does prostaglandis play in?

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  • a hormone that is delt with inflammation and pain and stimulate uterine contractions
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what is the different between interindividual variability and individuation ?

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  • interindivdual variability is a term for ppl who do not age the same way, wheras individuation is a process of an young adult developing own morals and beleifs based on parents and socity construct
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what organ systems are affected by mesoderm?
what organ system are affected by endoderm aka inner layer?
emrbyonic disk aka ectoderm affects the

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  • muscular, bone, reproductive
  • digestive and respiratory-
  • spinal cord and 5 senses
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the _____ allow to grow the limbs. what shape is the dna?

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rungs
- rod shaped

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_______ genes; Cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs do what?

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  • cystic fibrosis affects the pancreas and lungs; tay sachs causes decline in neurological system
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huntington disease a ______ gene is a _____

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  • dominant
  • fatal degenerative disorder
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where is pudendal block and epidural block going?

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  • pudendal in pussy n epidural in back
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what is the difference between vernix and lanugo?

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  • vernix is white oily substance, wheras lanugo is fine downy hair
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what does small for gestational age mean ?

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bby born full term but low birth weight

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bbay passes thru _____ to reach the vagina

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  • cervix
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what does major despression with perinatal onset mean?

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  • serious maternal depression following delivery, characterized by sadness, apathy and feelings of worthlessness
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what is the differecne between apgar scale and brazelton neonatal assessment scale?- and bayley scales of infant devlopment

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apgar scale assess health whereas brazelton neonatal assessment scale assesses motor behavior, response to stress, adaptive behavior, and control over psychological state and A standardized measure used to assess the development of infants and young children

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the least common kind of maternal depression after delievery is?

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  • postpartum psychosis
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the health of neonates is assessed using the 5 point ____ scale

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  • apgar
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what vision does neonates show?

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nearsightedness

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neonates spend about ____ hours a day sleeping

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16 hours sleeping

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what does goodness of fit mean?

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  • an individual characterisitcs match the demand and expectations of their enviorment
  • how well the child’s temperament matches the parent’s temperament, or even that of his teacher
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what is gender identity?
what is gender stability ?
what is gender constancy?

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  • gender idenity is knowledge that one is male or female
  • gender concept is knowledge that ones gender is unchanging
  • gender constancy is understanding ones gender remains the same despite changes in apperance or behaviorr
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perfectionistic and obsessionatic personality traits play a role in

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  • eating disorders
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ovaries, vagina, uterus and fallopian tubes are ______ sex characterisitcs
penis, testes prostate glands and seminal vesicles are ______ sex characteristics

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  • primary that are involved in reproduction
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what is abstinence syndrome?

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  • withdrawal symptoms from decreasing usage of substance abuse
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what does reciprocity mean?

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  • exchange of feelings between individuals
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the ability to think abstractly, reason, solve problems in novel situations, independent of acquired knowlegde is known as _____ intelligence

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  • fluid
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the accumlation of knowledge, facts, skills acquired throughout life and applied to problem solving and decison making is known as _____ intelligence

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  • crystal intelligence
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The brain’s ability to change and adapt throughout life in response to experiences, learning, and environmental influences is called

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  • plasticity
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30
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how long does it take for a child’s brain to reach 70% of its adult weight

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  • 1 yr
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vision is the infant’s dominant sense at

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  • 5 to 6 months
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32
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myelination of the neurons involved in the sense of hearing begins in
- germinal / embryonic / fetal stage

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  • fetal stage
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33
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at which age does visual acuity first approximate adult levels?

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  • 3 to 5 yrs of age
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the tendency to return to ones genetically determined pattern of growth following a period of deprivation is referred to as ____

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  • canalization
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what is the difference betwene primary circular reaction and secondary circular reaction in piaget sensriomotor stage?

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  • primary is between 1-4 months and focuses on own body, whereas secondary is between 4-8 months and focuses on exploring enviroment
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36
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object permance occurs at what age?

37
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exmaples of secondary circular reaction

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  • shakign a rattle or pulling string
38
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coordination of secondary schemes is characteized by

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intentional- goal oritentated behavior

39
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what is the difference between cooing and babbling?

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  • cooing is prelingusitic vocalizations whereas babbling is first vocalizations of sounds of speech
40
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infants typically say words beginning at about the age of –

41
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a child typically spontaneously creates two word sentences sometime between the age of .
-what is child vocabular typically made out of

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18 and 24 months
- nouns

42
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ability of an infant to transfer objects from one hand to another during play is typical of the _____ month of cogntive development

43
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at 10-12 months, infants tend to repeat syllables, showing what lingusitcs refer to as ___

44
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according to piaget, children use _____ to absorb new events into exsiting schemes

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  • assimilation
45
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ambivalent/resitant attachment is charatcerized by

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  • severe distress at leavings and amblivalent ( mixed feelings) behavior at reunions
46
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insecure attachment

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is characterized by avoiding caregiver, excessive clinging, or incostiency

47
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avoidant attachment can be best described as

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  • dont care if leave or reunion
48
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______ _______ process of acquiring knowledge, understanding, and thinking skills throughout the lifespan

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cognitive developement

49
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Mary Ainsworth develop the phases of attachment ///
- inital pre attachment phase, attachment in the making phase and attachment in the making phase occur at

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inital pre attachment= bith to 3 months
attachment in making phase= 4 to 4 months
attachment in the making phase= 6 to 7 months

50
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secure attachment are readily soothed by reunion and characterized at mild-distress at leave takings
T or F

51
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which kind of attachment is used to describe babies who seem confused and may move toward the mother while looking away from her

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  • disorganized-disorientaed
52
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_____ disorder is charcterizied by social deficits and stereotyped behavior but with out significany cognitive or language delays

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  • asberger syndrome
53
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the 3 temperaments are easy, difficult and slow to warm up
T or F

54
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parents may try to modify a child intial temperament to achieve a ______ of fit between child and parent

55
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insecure attachment at the age of one yr predicts psychological disorders at the age of ___

56
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Type of thought in which natural cause-and-effect relationships are attributed to will is known as

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what is the difference betwene egocentric and centration
-what stage in piaget theory does egocentrsim display in? and what are the ages ; early, middle or late

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  • egocentric = thinkign that everyone sees from your perspective, centration is focusing on one aspect of situation
    • 2 to 6 yrs of age/ early childhood
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what is decentration

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  • ability to focus on many aspects of a situation
59
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If A>B and B>C, then A>C

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transivity

60
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Myelin replaced with hard, fibrous tissue ​

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multiple slcerosis

61
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causes intellectual disability by inhibiting myelin formation in brain​

62
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Enuresis aka bed wetting

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  • failure to control bladder
63
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Encopresis

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  • failure to control bowel movements
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___________ is ability to memorze and understanding of one’s own memory processes, including the ability to monitor, control, and manipulate memory
_________ is ability to problem solve and total knowlegde

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  • metamemory
  • metacogntion
65
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when does peer pressure peak at ??

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  • 15 yrs of age mid adolence
66
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when children start asking questions of each other and have simialr goals but no rules is what kind of social play

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  • associative play
67
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cellualr damage theory - cross-linking theory can be best described as

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  • stiffening of body proteins
68
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Robert Selman is known for what?

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  • known for his theory of social cognitve developemtn
69
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somnambulism is known as

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  • sleep walking
70
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what does symbolic play aka pretend play mean? what age does this occur in and what stage of piaget cogntive development stage?

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  • children play make believ3
  • 12 months to 30 months
    -preoperational
71
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what does transductive reasonign mean?

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  • reasoning from specifc to specifc
72
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what is the difference between animism and artificialism?

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  • animism is giving life to inanimate objects, whereas artficialism is a beleif that the environment was made by people
73
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what is fast mappping?

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  • process of quickly determining a word’s meaning
74
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by age ____, children starting drawing ____ shapes

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  • 3 and basic shapes
75
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between ages ___ and 5 , children reach the ______ stage

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  • 4 , pictoral
76
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we would expect a child to be able to catch a small ball, using the hands only, by the age of ___

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5 yrs old or 60-71 months

77
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the childs probability of becoming left handed is

78
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the avg 4-8 yr old needs

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1400 kcal/day

79
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piaget believed that children ususally begin to engage in pretend play in the 2nd yr, when they have developed the ability to _____ objects

80
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what happens to the rate of growth between ages 2-6, when compared to the growth rate during infancy

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  • it slows down
81
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we wud expect a child to build a tower of six cubes at

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2 yrs of age

82
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preschoolers of learning of grammatical rules has led to

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  • overregulation
83
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according to erickson, early childhood is the stage of _____ vs guilt

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initiative

84
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when do children first show visual preferences for sterotypical boys toys or girls toys

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before their first bday

85
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______ behavior is also known as altrusim

86
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3rd stage in piagets scheme, characterized by flexible, reversible thought concering tangible objects and events

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  • concrete operational
87
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what is the difference between convergent and divergent thinking
- _____ is limited to facts
- ______ is creative thinking

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  • convergent thinking is focusing on one solution at a time, whereas divergent thinking is focusing on many solutions
  • convergent
  • divergent
88
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the ability to ignore distractions increases most dramatically between

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  • 6 and 9 yrs of age
89
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childhood obesity is caused by
over the past 20 yrs, obesity has _____

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  • a combo on herdity and enviorment
  • doubled

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