Which of the following is true of development?
A. All development involves growth, not decline.
B. Understanding development requires that we take into account the contributions of the environment alone.
C. Development requires that we take into account the contributions of a person's biological inheritance without considering the environment.
D. Development is the product of nature, nurture, and the complex interaction of the two.
Answer: D
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a. observing how preschool teachers give attention to different behaviors in boys and girls. b. using projective tests with normal and abnormal subjects. c. studying people who had fully developed their personal potentials. d. using computer models to simulate human emotional experiences.
The psychological phenomenon referred to as pareidolia refers to our ____
a. ?preference for tastes of foods our mother consumed during pregnancy b. ?tendency to see faces in random patterns with face-like configurations c. ?ability to identify social cues, even very early in life d. ?identification with people who are similar to us in important ways
Hannah and Franz both have blond hair and blue eyes. Their daughter, Elsa, has blond hair and blue eyes. Elsa has therefore received similar genes from her parents. She is said to be ___________ for these traits
a. homozygous c. genus b. heterozygous d. phyla
The authors of your text discuss the idea that social psychology progresses through the process of theory refinement. Which of the following is the best summary of theory refinement?
a. Theories are developed and debated by experts in the field. b. When hypotheses are proven, they become theories. c. Theories are developed, hypotheses are proposed and tested, and then theories are revised. d. Hypotheses are proposed and tested at least three times by different researchers before altering a theory.