Any Environmental Factor That Could Negatively Affect the Prenatal Development

question 500

Multiple Choice

Any environmental factor that could negatively affect the prenatal development is called ___________.

• A)gene
• B)teratogen
• C)zygote
• D)germ layer

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Definitions:

Conservation Tasks

Cognitive tasks developed by Piaget to assess a child's ability to recognize that certain properties of objects, such as quantity or volume, can remain the same despite changes in the form or arrangement of the objects.

Piagetian Preoperational Stage

A developmental stage in early childhood (approximately aged 2-7 years) characterized by symbolic thinking, egocentrism, and a lack of logical operations, according to Piaget's theory.

Conservation

In cognitive development, the understanding that an object's or substance's quantity remains the same despite changes in its shape or form.

Appearance-Reality

A cognitive development concept referring to the ability to differentiate between what something appears to be and what it actually is.