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The science of lifespan development is...
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systemic body of testable theories that can be verified or refuted
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The best description of childhood is that it is a period?
a. of preparing to become an adult b. requiring much discipline to shape proper behavior c. to be tolerated until adult behavior emerges d. of growth and change requiring much special care. |
d. of growth and change requiring much special care.
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The key to formal operational thinking is the ability to think about _______ concepts.
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abstract
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A major strength of ecological theory is it's
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it's framework for explaining environmental influences on development.
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Behavioral geneticists believe that...
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behaviors are determined by a continuous interaction between biological and environmental factors.
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A common characteristic of babies who are born to woman that smoke are...
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low birth weight
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the best desciption of cephalocaudal development is...
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an infant first being able to raise the head,then sit up, then stand up.
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researchers have found that infants prefer to look at items with
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a great deal of patterns
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When an infant turns it's head at the sound of footsteps in the hall and then smiles when it sees its mother enter the room, the infant is using...
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intermodal perception
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Two important factors that produce individual differences in height are...
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ethnic origin and nutrition
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The greatest challenge facing middle aged men is...
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erectile dysfunction
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What age group is more concerned with body height and appearance?
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Middle aged adults
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In middle adulthood, the ability to reason abstractly declines, what decline is occuring?
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fluid intelligence
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In Nature vs. nurture, nature people say...
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All things are genetically determined
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What is the main problem with experiments?
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They do not mirror real life.
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