Your best friend comes to you, visibly excited. "I just couldn't wait to tell you the big news," she says. "I'm pregnant!" She is clearly overjoyed and goes on to tell you, "It is so amazing. The doctor says I'm about six weeks pregnant, and I already feel so different!" Wanting to show off your new knowledge of developmental psychology and the prenatal stages, you smugly reply, "It is just so great that your child is in the __________ stage of development, because its organs are just starting to develop!"
A. embryonic
B. fetal
C. zygotic
D. germinal
Answer: A
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