​Maryanne was born at a weight of 8.2 pounds. If her growth is typical of most children, about how much will she weigh at her first birthday party?

​Roz is in the process of giving birth to her daughter. The baby has made its way from the uterus into the vagina, and is currently being expelled from Roz’s body as Roz contracts her abdominal muscles. In which stage of labor is Roz?

​When adults speak slowly and with exaggerated changes in pitch and volume, they are using ____ speech.

​When two children share the same toys and play with them in the same way, working together to refine their chosen game, they are engaging in parallel play.

​In gender-_______________ theory, children are believed to learn more about an activity only after first deciding whether it is masculine or feminine.

​If a child believes that the name “cat” refers only to her own family’s cat and to no other cats, she is a victim of

​Randi is pregnant for the first time. Given the frequency with which twins and triplets have occurred in her family, she is understandably concerned that she will have a multiple-birth pregnancy. If you were her gynecologist, which of the following prenatal tests would you recommend to either confirm or rule out the number of babies she is carrying?

​Despite widespread, culturally-appropriate efforts to educate new parents about the safest position for their babies to sleep in, ____ infants still had the highest incidence of SIDS-related deaths.

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

​Grammatical ____ are words or endings of words that make a sentence grammatically correct.