One reason that the psychoanalytic perspective is no longer in the mainstream of child development is because
A) it tells us little about factors that contribute to personality development.
B) its theorists were so strongly committed to the clinical approach that they failed to consider other methods.
C) contemporary theorists have found that personality development does not take places in stages.
D) it fails to recognize the role of the early parent–child relationship in personality development.
B
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a. the majority of lesbian and bisexual relationships last less than one month. b. consistent, strong cross-sex interests in late childhood may predict later homosexual or bisexual orientation. c. most gay children have gay parents. d. a defect on the short arm of the Y chromosome appears to be the cause of homosexuality in males.
Nelson and Aboud asserted that the type of peer influence that contributes strongly to role-taking skills is
a. disagreements and conflicts among friends. b. unsupervised settings in which children are on an "honor system.". c. situations in which a child must give facts to an adult. d. cooperative play in which children help each other.
Light enters the eye, stimulates the retina, and relays visual information to the brain through nerve impulses. What is the order of cell firing to the brain?
a. photoreceptors, ganglion cells, bipolar cells b. ganglion cells, photoreceptors, bipolar cells c. bipolar cells, photoreceptors, ganglion cells d. photoreceptors, bipolar cells, ganglion cells
Large-scale surveys tend to have two major problems associated with them: __________ and __________
a. laboratory conditions that are too stringent; small sample sizes b. excessive experimental controls; large control groups c. nonresponse bias; social desirability bias d. experimenter bias; small sample sizes