Skills that must be mastered or personal changes that must be

made for optimal development, such as learning to read, adjusting to sexual maturity, or establishing a vocation, are best described as
a. developmental milestones.
b. psychosocial dilemmas.
c. moral dilemmas.
d. developmental tasks.


ANSWER: d

Psychology

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a. observational learning. b. modeling. c. operant conditioning. d. classical conditioning.

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Adaris has always been drawn to the saying "Absence makes the heart grow fonder," and she decides to incorporate this saying into her research project. Adaris is trying to define absence in a way that can be empirically tested

She is attempting to find an appropriate __________________. a) hypothesis b) operational definition c) double-blind study d) theory

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Cross-cultural studies of children's ability to create representational drawings of people seem to show that this skill is

A) hardwired into the brain. B) influenced by learning. C) absent in most non-urbanized cultures. D) more prominent in more rural cultures.

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A present editorial policy seems to be that:

A. no more than two experiments should be reported in one paper. B. follow-ups to a main experiment reported in a paper should be handled in separate "research notes" publications. C. multiple experiments or a parametric study involving several levels of two or more independent variables is more acceptable than single experiments. D. single experiments are preferred over multiple experiments.

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