Your authors give several examples of how research in human development has shaped social policies in the United States of America. Which social policy issues have NOT, according to your text, been affected by research on human development?
a. elimination of typical newborn immunizations because they are no longer medically necessary
b. the elimination of a mandatory retirement age
c. the Americans with Disabilities Act
d. methods for determining whether an adolescent offender should be tried as a juvenile or an adult
Question 2
Young children
a. do not use concrete memory aids to help them remember.
b. cannot be trained to use rehearsal.
c. can be assisted to remember better with labeling strategies.
d. tend to lack basic memory skills.
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In the 1960s, social psychologists did highly creative but controversial experiments. This photo, ...
The human hypothalamus (in color) in relation to the optic chiasm and the pituitary gland.
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