In Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, to what does scaffolding refer?

Children account for what percentage of all people living in poverty in the United States?

Which term best describes the changes to infants’ behavior during the sensorimotor stage, which reveals an awareness of past events?

Sylvia is in the first stage of childbirth and having contractions every 10–20 minutes. How large will the cervix dilate to in this stage?

Yasmeen tries several ways of getting an object out of a closed box before she is successful. What is she demonstrating?

Why are babies given an injection of vitamin K shortly after birth?

During birth, Amya’s baby experienced a prolonged cutoff of his oxygen supply. Which condition is the baby at heightened risk of developing?

What material is responsible for insulating neurons in the brain?

Tyler maintains that, because men are more violent than women, children are more likely to be abused by their fathers than by their mothers. Is he correct?

Shonda is almost 9 months old and is moving herself across the floor by lying prone and using her arms to pull herself along while her belly and feet drag behind. Shonda’s form of locomotion is called