What is the primary thrust of the psychosocial theory of development?
a. There are five different stages of psychosexual growth, each of which contributes to our adult personality.
b. At each of eight different stages, people encounter a unique crisis that must be resolved for development to proceed normally.
c. Development is a dynamic process of interaction with our environment, where unskilled children are guided by more skilled adults.
d. There are four stages of cognitive development, and at each stage a child becomes more capable of understanding and utilizing symbolic thought.
b
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a. ?women’s moral reasoning is becoming more like men’s moral reasoning b. moral systems in the U.S. tend to emphasize the well-being of the group in regulating values? c. by adulthood, most people have progressed to postconventional moral reasoning? d. humans have a built-in or innate moral sense that evolved to facilitate cooperative living?
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