What resolution have developmental psychologists come to when it comes to the nature vs. nurture debate?
a. Our biological endowments have a much larger effect on our growth and behavior than our current environment
b. Our social and physical worlds cannot match the developmental factors preset by our heritable characteristics
c. Our environments and genes are still under investigation to resolve the debate of which is more influential in our development
d. Our biological endowment, along with our social and physical environments, interact to determine developmental outcomes
Answer: d. Our biological endowment, along with our social and physical environments, interact to determine developmental outcomes
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a. how much of a trait is influenced by genetic factors for a specific individual. b. the proportion of the differences in a trait among a group of people that is due to genetic differences among these people. c. the percentage of pairs of people where, if one person in the pair has the trait in question, the other person in the pair also has the trait in question. d. the degree to which one trait increases with increases in another trait.
Rested is to tired as satiation is to
A) sleep. B) hungry. C) aroused. D) full.
Your friend has experienced excessive daytime sleepiness. He is laughing with you and suddenly falls to the ground. Your friend is probably suffering from
a. narcolepsy. b. parasomnia. c. REM rebound. d. sleep apnea. e. insomnia.
A multimillion-dollar longitudinal study, called PRISM, is being conducted in schizophrenics and those diagnosed with other neurological disorders to determine ______.
A. the psychosocial roots of social withdrawal B. the environmental causes of social withdrawal C. the cognitive processes involved in social withdrawal D. the biological mechanisms of social withdrawal