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.
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a. True b. False
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a. The attachment system co-evolved in mothers and their infants b. A mother obtains positive and rewarding feelings for her infants that motivate her continued care over the long period of her child’s dependency on her c. Both of the above d. Neither of the above
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postformal informal preformal nonformal
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– "When two genes go walking, the __________ does the talking." a. dominant b. recessive c. heterozygous d. gamete