When people become parents through pregnancy, adoption, or step-parenting, they face ____ and must adapt.

a. equilibrium
b. disturbance
c. disequilibrium
d. symmetry


c. disequilibrium

Psychology

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Parents and other caregivers __________

A) cannot modify their children’s expression of hereditary tendencies, regardless of the experiences they provide B) can uncouple unfavorable gene?environment correlations by providing children with positive experiences C) can do little to alter genetic tendencies, which cause children to receive, evoke, or seek certain experiences D) cannot protect aggressive children from a spiraling, antisocial course of development

Psychology

Discuss three ways in which classical conditioning is different from operant conditioning

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

Julie is a 47-year-old college professor who was shocked to find out she was pregnant. Although she was elated at the idea of having another child, she was worried about having a child with ______________ because the chances increase dramatically after ag

a. anencephaly b. spina bifida c. cystic fibrosis d. Down syndrome

Psychology

________ of the brain, which is involved in signaling when we should stop eating, functions differently in those with eating disorders.

A. The lateral intraparietal area B. The orbitofrontal cortex C. Broca's area D. The medial temporal lobe

Psychology