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​While observing brain activity, Dr. Smith proclaims, “This brain is definitely experiencing a downsizing in the number of connections between neurons.” This indicates that the brain Dr. Smith is studying is undergoing

​Why would a person be naturally concerned about undergoing an amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling during their pregnancy?

​Research has found that when parents use a(n) ____ style to help their children expand on their descriptions of events, they will have earlier memories of childhood when they reach adolescence.

Piaget hypothesized that children use two complementary processes to allow their experiences and schemes to work with each other. They are _______________ and _______________.

​In which type of prenatal testing is a grainy picture of the fetus generated that allows for identification of the child’s position and, at a certain point, its sex?

​Infants as early as four months of age will attend more to a face depicting a negative emotional expression than to a face depicting a positive one.

​As they left the restaurant, Jack and Mimi passed by a man on a park bench who was asking for spare change. Jack put a dollar in the man’s cup and smiled at him, and he and Mimi went to their car to drive home. Jack’s behavior demonstrates

​By about ____ months of age, a child can distinguish two objects from three and three objects from four.

​A memory for some significant life event is called a(n) ____ memory.

​Young Jean observes that her mother often cooks dinner, while her father is responsible for taking out the trash and mowing the lawn. She is learning ____ that are associated with men and women.