The nature-nurture controversy is primarily concerned with

a. the use of a chronological versus a longitudinal approach.
b. the difference between developmental and chronological age.
c. the relative importance of heredity and environment.
d. the extent to which development is continuous or discontinuous.
e. whether to study similarities or differences between people.


c. the relative importance of heredity and environment.

Psychology

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postformal informal preformal nonformal

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