Exam 5: Physical Development: the Brain, the Body, Motor Skills, and Sexual Development

TESTOSTERONE is to ESTROGEN as ____ is to ____.

Catch-up growth is most commonly observed in children who experience

For skeletal bones, IMMATURE is to MATURE as ____ is to ____.

From its beginning to its completion, the events of sexual maturation are completed within a timeframe of several

Obese children and adults are LEAST at risk of this health disorder:

The ____, at the base of the brain, is/are (a) "master gland(s)" that control(s) the workings of many other glands.

Contrast marasmus and kwashiorkor in terms of their causes and their outward physical symptoms.

Which of the following illustrates the qualitative nature of development?

How does nutritional status moderate the effect of illness on physical growth?

Outline the typical developmental sequence of voluntary reaching, and identify the cues that are used to guide it.

Ralph is a lab rat that was raised in "rat heaven," a large cage enriched with stimulating objects. The likely effect of Ralph's early experience is

Deprivation dwarfism and failure to thrive are similar because both conditions

A student tells a friend, "I can't stand Professor Bonzo; his mind has ossified." This means that Bonzo's

Sexual maturation in boys results from

The wrapping of a waxy sheath of protective myelin on neurons' axons tends to

In developing countries where childhood illness is common, children who have been relatively free from illnesses tend to be ____ than their sickness-prone peers.

Suppose that, over the past 100 years, people bought homes at younger ages in successive generations. This pattern resembles a(n)

Contrast nonorganic failure to thrive and deprivation dwarfism in terms of their causes and their outward physical symptoms.

The plasticity feature of brain action supports the ____ developmental principle.

Which factor of environmental experience exerts the strongest effect on the child's growth?