The _______________ knowledge hypothesis suggests that children are born with certain knowledge structures already in place that are ready to be modified by experience.

​The _______________ of a measure refers to whether it actually measures what researchers think it measures.

​If a pregnant woman consumes more than limited amounts of _______________ on a regular basis, her child may be born with a lower birth weight and may have decreased muscle tone.

Discuss the concept of naive biology, making sure to include the basic elements that typify the theories of four-year-old children in this domain.

​____ involves mixing sperm and egg cells together in a Petri dish, and then placing several fertilized eggs inside the mother’s uterus. The hope is that they will become implanted in the uterine wall and lead to pregnancy.

​All EXCEPT which of the following would you expect a child to list when you asked them to describe themselves?

​A reproductive technique that is used over 140,000 times and produces more than 55,000 babies each year in the United States is _______________.

​Which pianist is most likely to use private speech while practicing?

​Your friend Nadia has recently had a child, and is struggling with the decision to return to work. “I miss my job terribly,” she says,” but if I put the baby in day care, she might lose her bond with me!” Knowing the research in this area as well as you do, you reply:

​Results from the Family Lifestyles Project indicate that children raised by counterculture parents are different from children raised by parents with more traditional values in that