Which statement about emerging adulthood is true?
A. It characterizes the experience of low-SES individuals better than that of higher-SES individuals.
B. It was first recognized as a developmental stage by Piaget and his contemporaries.
C. Emerging adults are actually adolescents who take on adult responsibilities.
D. The attainment of adult milestones varies greatly in time and order across individuals.
Answer: D
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a. less than 10% increase b. less than 10%; remain stable c. about 25%; increase d. about 25%; remain stable
According to the authors, most of the events we experience
A) are encoded and lost in long-term memory. B) are implicitly encoded and thus lost within our long-term memory. C) are never encoded and thus never stored in long-term memory. D) are encoded and easily retrieved from long-term memory.
In the visual cliff experiment conducted by Campos, the infant's ability to perceive depth was measured by __________
a) an increase in heart rate. b) the infant's eye movements. c) the infant's arm movements. d) the infant's vocalizations.
Which of the following is not true of genetic variation?
A. There are more than eight million possible combinations of chromosomes in one person's egg or sperm cell. B. The development of an egg or sperm cell is like shuffling a deck of cards. C. Genetic variation guarantees similarity between siblings. D. Each parent contributes 23 chromosomes to their offspring.