What is a critical period? What is a sensitive period? Give examples to illustrate your answers
What will be an ideal response?
critical period = time during development when an organism is particularly susceptible to influences on specific developmental processes
sensitive period = influences which may lead to on- or off-time events
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According to current evidence, what is likely for children reared by a gay or lesbian couple?
a. Most have emotional problems in both childhood and adulthood b. Most have a difficult adjustment in childhood, but seem normal as adults. c. Most seem normal in childhood, but develop problems as adults. d. Most develop normally in both childhood and adulthood.
According to Piaget, what is the inner tendency of an organism to keep its cognitive schemes in balance and motivates development?
a. equilibrium c. constancy b. disequilibrium d. passivity
The somatic nervous system is a subdivision of the peripheral nervous that regulates the actions of the body's skeletal muscles
a. true b. false
In Sigmund Freud's theory, the __________ operates according to the pleasure principle
a) id b) ego c) thanatos d) superego