Nutritional Supplementation of Pregnant Women with Which of the Following

question 4

Multiple Choice

Nutritional supplementation of pregnant women with which of the following reduces the risk of neural tube defects in the fetus?

• A) Vitamin A
• B) Iron
• C) Calcium
• D) Folic acid
• E) Vitamin K

Explain the role of socioeconomic status on cognitive development and language acquisition.

Describe the evaluation of infant intelligence and cognitive abilities, focusing on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development III.

Comprehend the process and significance of habituation and categorization in infants.

Understand the developmental stages and cognitive tasks described by Piaget, including the sensorimotor substage and specific tasks like violation-of-expectation and A-not-B tasks.

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Definitions:

Intervention

Actions or strategies implemented to produce a change in a situation or in the behavior of individuals, often within educational or therapeutic contexts.

Changing Criterion Design

A method of graphing behavioral observations used to evaluate a slow and orderly increase or decrease in a student’s performance level by changing the criterion for the student to receive an intervention in a stepwise fashion.

Target Criterion

A specific goal or standard of performance that individuals aim to achieve in an intervention, training program, or behavioral experiment.

Baseline

The initial set of measurements or observations that serve as a starting point for comparison over time.