What has contributed to an increase in children's growth over the past century in the United States?

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Growth is largely maturational, but it can be influenced by health and environmental factors, especially nutrition. Improved sanitation, nutrition, and access to medical care have contributed to an increase in children's growth over the past century in the United States and other industrialized countries.

Psychology

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Which of the following statements is true about the significance given to social and environmental factors by the personality theorists?

a. Adler suggested that women raised in a matriarchal culture might have higher self-esteem. c. Cattell argued that environmental factors ultimately affect all of his 16 personality factors to some extent. b. Horney noted that social environment shapes the raw materials of personality provided by genetics into finished products. d. Allport's eight stages of psychosocial development are innate, but the environment determines the ways in which they are realized.

Psychology

Describe how the absolute threshold has real-life implications in reading mammogram tests.

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Psychology

Three-year-old Reggie says, "The mouses runned their foots into the hole.". These sentence errors are called

a. object scope constraints. b. lexical contrasts. c. overregularizations. d. holophrases.

Psychology

What is comfort food and who is more likely to exhibit emotional eating in response to daily hassle stress?

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Psychology