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A research review indicated that when newborns have physical defects:
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They are more likely to have diabetic mothers.
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Behavior geneticist Robert Plomin has found that shared environment accounts for ______ of the variation in children's personality or interests.
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Little
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Tammy is pregnant with her first child. She tells you that she loves swordfish and has it for dinner two or three times a week. Based on current research, what should you advise Tammy about her diet?
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Swordfish is not recommended for pregnant women because it can contain high levels of mercury.
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Psychology's newest approach, ______ , emphasizes the importance of adaptation, reproduction, and "survival of the fittest" in shaping behavior.
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Evolutionary psychology
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Regarding the conclusions about heredity and the environment, it can be said that:
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Complex behaviors have some genetic loading that gives people a propensity for a particular develpomental trajectory.
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Alyssa is 22 weeks pregnant. Her friend tells her, "You are almost to the end of your pregnancy. Your baby is moving around. He probably weighs about 3 pounds and if he was born now, he'd need an incubator but he'd be fine." Which part of Alyssa's friend's statement is NOT TRUE?
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Alyssa still has another 18 weeks to go before her baby id full-term.
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Mousumi's baby was born just minutes ago, and the doctor is checking the baby's heart rate, repiratory effect, and muscle tone. Mousumi's baby is being tested with the:
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Apgar Scale
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____ behavior is behavior that promotes an organism's survival in the natural habitiat.
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Adaptive
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According to life-span developmentalist Paul Baltes, the benefits conferred by evolutionary selection decrease with age. Natural selection has not weeded out many harmful conditions and nonadaptive characeristics that appear among older adults. Why?
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Natural selection operates primarily on characteristics tha are tied to reproductive fitness.
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Ameera is pregnant and is a heavy smoker. Which of the following is her baby MORE likely to have than is the baby of a nonsmoker?
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Sudden infant death syndrome
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Chu-Lin's doctor tells her that her baby will have problems with its repiratory and digestive systems. The doctor explains that the problems originated when the zygote divided into three major cell layers. Evidently, in Chi-Lin's case, there was a problem in the formation of the _____.
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Endoderm.
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Which of the following statements about the activity of the genes is true?
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Events inside of the cell can excite or inhibit genetic expression.
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Giovanna was found to be Rh incompatible with her first child. To prevent her body form producing antibodies that will attack any future Rh-incompatible fetuses, her doctor gave her:
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RhoGAM
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Which of the following mothers has the greatest risk of giving birth to a baby who has harmed by teratogen?
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Jasmine, a teeenager, who has been pregnant for only 4 weeks
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Naomi tells you that she is having her abby in an alternative way to minimize the stress that the baby would experience in a traditional birth settings. She says, "It will be more like what a baby has been used to for the last 9 months." Naomi is most likely planning:
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A waterbirth.
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