At the beginning of her first human development course in college, Vi wondered, "Am I the person I am today because of heredity, or did I become who I am because of my environment?" Vi's question reflects which issue in lifespan development?
A. psychoanalytic-behaviorist
B. active-passive
C. continuities-discontinuities
D. nature-nurture
Answer: D
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A. corpus callosum B. amygdala C. cerebral cortex D. hippocampus
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a. intrapersonal training. b. socialization training. c. sensitivity-contact training. d. peer identification training.
According to the research on sentence generation during writing,
a. the linearization problem is seldom an issue for written language. b. hesitant phases tend to alternate with fluent phases. c. sentence generation is typically an orderly, systematic process. d. sentence generation during writing has almost nothing in common with sentence generation during speaking.
Among profoundly retarded adults, listening skills are stronger than speaking skills. This pattern
a. is the opposite of infants' comprehension/production. b. cannot be compared in any meaningful way to infants' language comprehension/production. c. matches that of infants' comprehension/production. d. presumes that the retarded use creole but infants don't.