Your best friend comes to you, visibly excited. "I just couldn't wait to tell you the big news. I'm pregnant, " she screams. She is clearly overjoyed by the news, and goes on to tell you, "It is SO amazing
The doctor says I'm about 6 weeks pregnant, and I already feel SO different!" Wanting to show off your new knowledge of developmental psychology and the prenatal stages, you smugly reply, "It is just so great that your child is in the __________ of development because its organs are just starting to develop!"
a) embryonic
b) fetal
c) zygotic
d) germinal
ANS: A, The embryonic stage of prenatal development lasts from approximately the second through the eighth week of pregnancy.
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