Actual 2025/2026 Update.
Psychoanalytic theories -CORRECT ANS-.>> behavior is internally motivated and influenced by
unconscious inner thoughts and conflicts
(Behaviorist) Operant Conditioning -CORRECT ANS-.>> behavior becomes more or less
probable depending on its consequences - rewards and punishments
(Behaviorist) Social Learning Theory -CORRECT ANS-.>> observe behavior through other's
rewards and punishments - observational learning and reciprocal determinism (bobo doll
experiment)
observational learning -CORRECT ANS-.>> people learn through observing and imitating
models
reciprocal determinism -CORRECT ANS-.>> individuals and environment interact and influence
each other (parents behavior influences children who influence parents)
cognitive theories -CORRECT ANS-.>> motivated by how we think about and understand things
in the world - development/behavior are the result of thought/cognition
major cognitive theories/theorists -CORRECT ANS-.>> Piaget and Information Processing
Theory
Piaget's cognitive Developmental Theory -CORRECT ANS-.>> children and adults are active
explorers of their world and organize what they learn in a certain way in their head
Information Processing Theory -CORRECT ANS-.>> we behave the way we do because we've
learned certain things and processed them in a certain way (thinking is information processing)
sociocultural systems theory -CORRECT ANS-.>> behavior is motivated by multiple
environments in which we exist both direct (people) and indirect (political) - people inseparable
from multiple contexts where they exist
major sociocultural systems theories -CORRECT ANS-.>> Vygotsky's sociocultural systems
theory and Bronfenbrenner's bioecological systems theory
Vygotsky's Sociocultural Systems theory -CORRECT ANS-.>> examines how culture is
transmitted from one generation to the next through social interaction (formal and informal
,contacts teach children culture)
, Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory -CORRECT ANS-.>> addresses both the role of the
individual and that individual's social interactions (individual as active participant in developing
in contexts)
parts of genetic inheritance -CORRECT ANS-.>> genes, chromosomes, and what we inherit
from our parents
how do genes come? -CORRECT ANS-.>> in pairs
dominant genes -CORRECT ANS-.>> always expressed regardless of gene pairing
recessive genes -CORRECT ANS-.>> expressed dependent on other gene pairing
examples of dominant/recessive genes -CORRECT ANS-.>> hair color, eye color,
trends in maternal age -CORRECT ANS-.>> women getting pregnant later (30-40)
age and risks of high-risk pregnancy -CORRECT ANS-.>> 35, down syndrome, stillborn
how many calories pregnant women need -CORRECT ANS-.>> 2/3000 per day
B vitamin crucial in pregnancy -CORRECT ANS-.>> Folic acid linked with spinobifida
role of stress in pregnancy -CORRECT ANS-.>> poses risk to fetus of low birth weight,
premature, longer hospital stay, raised heart rate and activity
long term effects of stress in pregnancy -CORRECT ANS-.>> ADHD, anxiety, aggression
what prenatal care does -CORRECT ANS-.>> improves outcomes through basic services
what prenatal care is -CORRECT ANS-.>> nutrition, doctor visits,
ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in access to prenatal care -CORRECT ANS-.>> lack of
health insurance, transportation, job flexibility,
mothers unsure about pregnancy and with prior negative experiences -CORRECT ANS-.>>
dont access prenatal care