Describe the patterns and conceptions of friendships during the middle childhood years

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During middle childhood, children begin to increasingly value friends for their psychological qualities, rather than the fact that friends share activities with them. Friendships may be of short duration, and opposite-sex friendships are relatively rare.

Psychology

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Explain how the research findings relative to neural development deficits affect learning in the psychopath.

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Psychology

Which of the following illustrates the nature/nurture theme?

a. A child's early experiences direct the synaptic pruning that occurs in the first years of life. b. The timing of puberty depends on both your genetics and what sort of nutrition you have had. c. Babies remain the same length for days, and then grow several centimeters all in one day. d. Motor development in infants is related to the infant's cognitive and social goals.

Psychology

Rewards that attract or "pull" people to action are:

a) instincts. b) incentives. c) stimuli. d) drives.

Psychology

What percentage of African-American children will spend at least part of their childhood in a single-parent home?

a. 40 c. 65 b. 50 d. 75

Psychology