What is a critical period? What is a sensitive period? Give examples to illustrate your answers

What will be an ideal response?

critical period = time during development when an organism is particularly susceptible to influences on specific developmental processes
sensitive period = influences which may lead to on- or off-time events

Psychology

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Although female leaders are as task-oriented as male leaders, women tend to have a more ____________ leadership style.

a. aristocratic b. automatic c. diplomatic d. democratic

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Memory is critical to our lives because ________

a. it gives us our sense of who we are. b. without memory, we could not experience emotions. c. it operates as a video camera would, automatically recording every moment of our lives. d. each thing that happens to us, or impinges on our senses, is tucked away for later use.

Psychology