Exam 3: Prenatal Development and Birth

Since 2010, new HIV infections among children:

Rh incompatibility occurs when an:

Prematurity is associated with all of the following risk factors except:

Which of the following statements concerning the impact of a mother's psychological condition on her developing fetus is true?

The use of epidural anesthesia to reduce pain during labor has been associated with all of the following except:

According to the proximodistal pattern of prenatal development, which should develop first?

Children whose mothers used cocaine during pregnancy often experience:

Which of the following is NOT a potential outcome for female embryos that produce high levels of testosterone?

Research reveals that even before birth, babies prefer the sounds of their own native language over the sounds of other languages.

The term _____ is used when an individual has an insufficient food intake making it impossible to develop or function normally. When pregnant women have this condition, it can have harmful effects on prenatal development.

During the initial cell division of the zygote, cells divide in an orderly fashion from a two-cell to a four-cell stage and so on.

Women who have supportive partners are:

The structure that surrounds the developing organism, and holds in the fluid in which it floats, is the:

The length of time from conception until birth is typically ____________ days.

The series of mitotic cell divisions that transforms the zygote into the multicellular mass known as the blastocyst is called:

Although breech births were once considered to be very dangerous, modern medicine has alleviated concerns about delivering breech babies vaginally.

The periods of prenatal development occur in which order?

Parents tend to interact more frequently and lovingly with babies who are:

Smoking during pregnancy is associated with:

Newborns have more advanced auditory capabilities than visual capabilities. This is an example of: