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When do genetically influenced characteristics become evident?
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When children encounter an unfamiliar stimulus, they accommodate / assimilate it to more familiar stimuli. At the same time, their understanding accommodates / assimilates to the experience, so that when they next encounter the unfamiliar stimulus will feel less strange.
Which of the following is true?
Which of the following statement accurately descirbes the interaction of nature and nurture?
Which of the following is an example of the crucial role that timing plays in the potential impact of a teratogen?
The emerging fiel of epigenetics has helped to explain the ways in which a child's environment can influence gene expression. Which of the following is an example of this interaction?
Looking preferences, self-initiated activities, self-socialization, and even the manner in which infants react to their parents are all examples of ...
Which of the following is an example of the theme of the active child?
Piaget's theory of cognitive development, Freud's theory of psychosexual development, and Erikson's theory of psychosocial development are all examples of ...
An infant's attachment to his or her mother will more reliably predict that child's long-term security if there are no significant disruptions in the home environment. This example illustrates ...
Which of the following statements accurately expresses a key understanding regarding the continuity and discontinuity of development?
Before writing an essay, a child first considers what readers already know about the topic. Which of the four general information-processing mechanisms is illustrated by this example?
Which of the following statements is not true of the development of a child's cognitive abilities?
Which of the following is not a reason why demographic variables such as gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are particularly useful to child-development researchers?
Habituation is a learning process in which a child becomes familiar with a repeated stimulus. This process can motivate the child to seek out new stimulation. Besides illustrating the role of behavioral mechanisms in a child's development, this example also demonstrates which other theme of child development?
D. The interaction between nature and nurture is important here.
D. Assimilate, assimilates.
B. Children from poorer families often are insecurely attached.
C. Nature and nurture begin interacting on the fetus in the womb, and both continue to shape the individual's development.
C. A virus will cause damage to the development of a fetus if contracted by the pregnant mother at specific sensitive times during pregnancy.
D. The amount of stress that a mother experiences during her child's infancy can affect that child's ability to regulate reaction to stress later in life.
A. Looking preferences, self-initiated activities, self-socialization, and even the manner in which infants react to their parents are all examples of the active role children play in their development.
D. Children who are better able to regulate their emotions tend to be more socially competent and, therefore, elicit more positive reactions from other people than those who are less skilled at emotion regulation.
B. The stage approach to development.
B. This example illustrates how continuity in individual differences is influenced by continuity in the environment.
D. The apparent continuity or discontinuity of a given developmental trait depends on the timescale on which it is considered.
C. The information processing mechanisms that is illustrated in this example is metacognition.
B. Statistical learning emerges in middle childhood, after the child has begun to understand basic mathematical properties.
D. These variables tend to be unaffected by environmental factors.
B. This example also demonstrates the role of the active child in its' own development.
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