​When children see their parents helping and caring for others, the parents are said to _______________ prosocial behavior and the children will learn to behave prosocially.

​Wilma is afraid of the pain involved in delivering her baby. Are childbirth classes likely to help her?

​Wendy is pregnant with her son, who will be named William. Wendy has been diagnosed with a specific illness which she knew she had prior to getting pregnant. Although there is no way to know for sure if the illness will harm William during his development, the most likely symptoms of any such harm would include damage to his central nervous system, his teeth, and his bones. From which of the following illnesses does Wendy suffer?

​As a result of reading several research articles on the long-term effects of daycare, a state legislature passes a new law mandating that all daycare providers modify their practices to be in consistent with this research. This action reflects

​According to your textbook, approximately one in every ____ children born in the United States will one day be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

​Mariposa is lying in her crib, and is making elongated single vowel sounds, like “ahhhhhhh” and “oooooooh.” If she has only recently begun to make these sounds, how old would you guess that Mariposa is?

​When a measure being used in a research study actually assesses what the researchers think it measures, it would be described as being

By the time a baby reaches his first birthday, he will spend about 25% of its sleep time in _______________ sleep, which is similar to sleep patterns of an adult.

You are looking out into your yard at a beautiful Japanese maple tree. You notice the tree has many branches with lovely purple leaves on them. The leaves are capturing raindrops from the current storm. If this tree were actually a neuron, the leaves that capture incoming information would be the ________.

​____ involves applying grammatical rules to words that are, in fact, exceptions to those rules.