Define a teratogen, and illustrate your answer with an example. List at least six teratogens one should avoid during pregnancy.
What will be an ideal response?
A teratogen is any agent that can potentially cause a birth defect or negatively alter cognitive and behavioral outcomes. Teratogens include drugs, incompatible blood types, environmental pollutants, infectious diseases, nutritional deficiencies, maternal stress, and advanced maternal and paternal age.
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a. low-pitch sounds and nonvaried intonation. b. low-pitch sounds and varied intonation. c. high-pitch sounds and nonvaried intonation. d. high-pitch sounds and varied intonation.
The slogan, "The mind has a mind of its own," means that
a. parental influence is a delusional self-deception. b. thoughts can happen even without the person's volition. c. multiple-personality disorder occurs in most humans. d. some children have been reincarnated from a past life.
The requirement for membership in AARP is that the person is
retired. over 50. over 70. collecting Social Security.
Based on their research, some scientists believe that ________
a. adolescents who commit violent crimes should be tried as adults because their cognitive abilities and moral reasoning abilities are like those of an adult. b. full neurological and cognitive maturity often does not occur until about age 25, and many teenagers who commit crimes should be considered "less guilty by reason of adolescence." c. the human brain is fully developed around 10 years of age, so the risky, dumb, or criminal things adolescents do should be blamed entirely on hormonal changes. d. adolescents should be considered as adults in the eyes of the law as soon as they have completed puberty, because physically they are adults at that point.