Regarding motor development, the cephalocaudal rule asserts that
a. motor development of the head, neck, and upper extremities precedes the development of the legs.
b. motor development proceeds from the bottom up.
c. certain joints are ill prepared for motion in the first year of life.
d. motor development is variable across cultures.
A
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a. studying age-related changes. b. explanations for development. c. explaining inborn biases. d. behavioral change.
Which of the following statements is true of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep?
A. In humans, the amount of REM sleep over the life span corresponds to the degree of brain plasticity and neural growth. B. REM sleep, just like new neural growth, continues throughout our lives-it just increases with age. C. Newborns and infants spend much less time in REM sleep than adults. D. Brains are least plastic in infancy and childhood and more so in adulthood-precisely the pattern seen in REM sleep.
Kohlberg found that the typical responses of adolescents to the moral dilemmas he presented them were at the __________ level.
A. amoral B. preconventional C. conventional D. postconventional
The steps of the scientific method include formulating a question, developing it into a hypothesis, testing that hypothesis, and drawing conclusions.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)