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Developmental psychologists study physical, cognitive, and ________ changes throughout the human life span.
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social
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Theories of human development have been most susceptible to criticism for overemphasizing
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discrete age-linked stages.
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During the course of successful prenatal development, a human organism begins as a(n)
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zygote and finally develops into a fetus.
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A preference for our mother's voice over our father's voice has been detected as early as
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the day after birth.
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Alcohol may cause fetal damage by leaving chemical marks on DNA that switch genes abnormally on or off. This best illustrates
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an epigenetic effect.
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Infant visual preferences have been discovered by assessing infants'
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habituation.
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Maturation refers to
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biological growth processes that are relatively uninfluenced by experience.
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The concept of maturation is most relevant to understanding the absence of
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bladder control among 2-year-olds.
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Three-year-olds who experienced a fire evacuation caused by a burning popcorn maker were unable to remember the cause of this vivid event when they were 10-year-olds. This best illustrates
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infantile amnesia.
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The first time that 4-year-old Sarah saw her older brother play a flute, she thought it was simply a large whistle. Sarah's initial understanding of the flute best illustrates the process of
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assimilation
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Object permanence is the understanding that
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things continue to exist even when they are not perceived.
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The egocentrism of preschoolers was most strongly emphasized by
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Piaget's cognitive development theory.
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According to Piaget, imagining an action and mentally reversing it would be an example of a
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mental operation.
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Preschoolers' acquisition of a theory of mind suggests that Piaget overestimated young children's
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egocentrism.
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Children for whom amniotic fluid analysis indicated high prenatal testosterone develop more
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autistic traits.
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