What evidence supports the notions that both nature and nurture have roles in motor development?
What will be an ideal response?
Nature has been shown to be involved since even when there is a lack of experience in motor activity, such as with Hopi infants who are strapped to boards for the first year of their lives who begin to walk around the same time as those who had experience with locomotion. Nurture has been shown to be important with the children in an Iranian orphanage with limited motor experience and significant retardation of their motor development.
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a. Genitals of the opposite sex are constructed and hormones are taken. b. Genital transplants are inserted from donors. c. Hormones are taken, but genitals are left in tact. d. Secondary features (likes Adam's apples, chins, and noses) are altered, but genitals are left intact.
A piece of chalk placed in the shade on a sunny day reflects less light than a black hockey puck placed directly in the sunlight. Yet we perceive the chalk to be brighter than the hockey puck. We can explain this perceptual phenomenon based on the principle of
a. brightness constancy. b. color constancy c. relative reflectance. d. retinal disparity. e. contrast effects.
The suggestion that children with intellectual disability demonstrate the same behaviors and underlying processes as typically developing children who are at the same level of cognitive functioning is referred to as the ____
a. difference hypothesis b. developmental hypothesis c. similar sequence hypothesis d. similar structure hypothesis
The ability to think logically, reason abstractly, and solve novel problems, relatively independent of past specific knowledge, is known as ________ intelligence.
A. spatial B. experiential C. crystallized D. fluid