Your 5-year-old daughter has really not eaten very much during the past couple of days. You are a bit worried, but after thinking about your developmental course, you remember that 5-year-old children ____

a. rarely eat until their 6th birthday
b. sometimes do not really eat very much. She will probably be eating quite a bit tomorrow
c. experience serious changes in their taste buds during this time and might avoid eating
d. are likely sneaking in snacks between meals. You will need to watch her carefully

B. Appetites vary a lot from day to day in early childhood, so there is no need to worry.

Psychology

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Which of the following is one of the three

inborn and universal needs that help people gain a complete sense of self and whole, healthy relationships with others, according to the self-determination theory? a) autonomy b) relevance c) incompetence d) rejection

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One reason that psychologists abandoned the view of instinct as a universal explanation of human behavior is that

a. Freud's popular theory rejected the importance of instinct. b. there had been little success in generating a list of human instincts. c. the behaviorist influence began to diminish in the 1920s. d. cross-cultural studies found enormous behavioral variation.

Psychology