Which of the following was a finding of Monica Ardelt’s “Berkeley Guidance Project?”

A. The quality of a person’s social environment in early adulthood has a significant effect on the development of wisdom.
B. Significant gender differences exist in terms of the developmental course of wisdom.
C. Children today are significantly wiser than children born in the 1950s.
D. Children in California are significantly wiser than children in the rest of America.


Ans: A

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