Maturation is defined as the
a. physical growth and development of the body, brain, and nervous system.
b. organism's ability to adapt to changing conditions.
c. sum of all the external conditions affecting development.
d. transmission of physical and psychological characteristics from parent to offspring.
A
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a) sixteenth b) seventeenth c) eighteenth d) twentieth
Research with gay people suggests that humans' first sexual feelings arise around the age of _____.
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Which of the following does NOT go with the others?
a. connectionist models b. neural net models c. parallel distributed processing models d. mental models
Research on sexual behavior is
A) ?difficult to do because it is hard to get a sample of participants who represent the general population. B) ?easy to do because people are always willing to talk about their sex lives. C) ?well advanced because it is one of the oldest areas of research in psychology. D) ?in its infancy because the variables are difficult to define.