Because Dr. Smith falls on the "nurture" side of the nature-nurture controversy, she is most likely to believe that

a. if infants are given normal opportunities to move about, their motor skills will naturally unfold in a universal sequence.
b. teachers' expectations for their students' success will have little effect on how they actually achieve.
c. while a child's experiences in school will have an impact on his or her intellectual development, what the child is "born with" matters more.
d. a mother's care can greatly impact the development of a child.

d

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a. being fired. b. going to jail. c. the death of a spouse. d. a severe personal injury. e. divorce.

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When a preschool girl competes with her mother for her father's affection, Freud said that the little girl was experiencing

a. the Electra conflict. b. the Oedipus conflict. c. incongruence. d. the genital stage.

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