Developmental psychology is best defined as the study of ____.?
a. ?children's thought processes and moral reasoning
b. ?the physical changes that occur in the womb and during the childhood years
c. ?the social, cognitive, and physical changes that occur over the course of the life span
d. ?the influence of genes on the behavior of infants, children, adolescents, and adults
ANSWER:
c
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A. social support B. emotional pillars C. self-help seeking D. assisted living
The infant's ability to move around in the environment involves the development of _____ skills
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Which of the following is not true? a. Infants have an innate fear of snakes.b Infants are prepared to acquire a fear of snakes
b. Infants are particularly attentive to evolutionarily relevant animals in comparison to animals that are less likely to have caused harm to our ancestors. c. People attend more quickly to evolutionarily relevant stimuli than to evolutionarily irrelevant stimuli.
When a group exerts such strong pressure to conform that it prevents people from expressing critical ideas, the group is suffering from __________
a. groupthink b. polarization c. risky shift d. deindividuation