A newborn infant shows symptoms of irritability, high-pitched cry, muscle spasms, fever, sleep disturbance, and feeding problems. What is one likely diagnosis?
a. The mother is a cigarette smoker.
b. The mother is a cocaine addict.
c. The mother is an alcoholic.
d. The mother is a diabetic.
b
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In our early to middle ____, our immune system, senses, physiological responses, and mental skills are most efficient.
A. 20s B. 30s C. 40s D. 50s
Children who have less contact with their mothers prior to a sibling's birth are less affected by her shift in attention to a new sibling
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following accurately describes Bruner's representational systems?
a. The order of development is motor, symbolic, and enactive. b. Each representational system is distinct, sequential, and exclusively descriptive of an individual at that stage. c. Though two of the representational systems develop and are utilized in childhood, the third does not appear until the adult years. d. As each representational system is acquired, it is added to and used alongside those that preceded it.
Reinforcement is the means by which experience alters the environmental guidance of
behavior, whereas sensitivity to reinforcement is a product of a. shaping. b. classical conditioning. c. operant conditioning. d. natural selection. e. temporal contiguity.