Nonshared Environmental Influences

Question 1

Extreme overweight in relation to age, sex,
height, and body type as defined by having
a body mass index at or above the 95th
percentile

Answer 1

Obesity

Question 2

Psychologists call babies’ unique and
characteristic ways of approaching and
reacting to these environmental stimuli.

Answer 2

temperament

Question 3

There is evidence for a hereditary influence
on such mental disorders as schizophrenia,
autism, alcoholism, and depression

Answer 3

Psychopathology

Question 4

Kind if disorder that characterized by loss of contact with reality; hallucinations and delusions; loss of coherent, logical thought; and inappropriate emotionality

Answer 4

Schizophrenia

Question 5

Period of development
between conception and birth

Answer 5

gestation

Question 6

normal range of gestation is between

Answer 6

37 and 41 weeks

Question 7

usually dated from the first day of an expectant mother’s last menstrual cycle.

Answer 7

Gestational age

Question 8

“head to tail,” dictates
that development proceeds from the head to
the lower part of the trunk.

Answer 8

cephalocaudal principle

Question 9

“near to far,”
development proceeds from parts near the
center of the body to outer ones

Answer 9

proximodistal principle

Question 10

First 2 weeks of prenatal development,

Answer 10

Germinal Stage

Question 11

The attachment of the blastocyst to the
uterine wall, occurring at about day 6.

Answer 11

implantation