What three lines of evidence have challenged the belief that parents are the major influence on their children's personalities?

What will be an ideal response?


The shared family environment has little if any influence on personality; few parents have a consistent childrearing style; and even when parents try to be consistent in the way they treat their children, there may be little relation between what they do and how the children turn out.

Psychology

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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T/F It is important to delimit the choice of behaviors to observe because of confounding factors

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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What are the characteristics of people with social anxiety? Find examples of these in the case.

What will be an ideal response?

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An infant's first sounds are reflexive, nonintentional sounds, such as crying and sneezing, that are called

A) vegetative sounds. B) cooing. C) echolalia. D) true babbling.

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