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True/False: The development of breasts and widening of the pelvis in girls, and the growth of facial hair and the broadening of the shoulders in boys are all examples of primary sex characteristics.

A small group of friends who are similar in age, sex, race, and attitudes is called a(n) _______________.

A group of neighborhood children get together a few times a week to play hide and seek, and the game rotates from yard to yard. This is a large-scale example of _______________ play.

As children gain more general knowledge of their worlds—physical, social, and psychological—it is reasonable to assume that their reading ________________ skills will improve.

_______________ refers to an internal set of beliefs about others, often negative, that is based on their membership in a particular group.

According to Bowlby, the second stage in the formation of an attachment relationship, usually appearing between 6–8 weeks and 6–8 months, is called attachment-in-the-_______________.

True/False: The phase of Donald Super’s theory of career development that would most likely be seen as a person leaves college in their twenties is augmentation, which means to put something into effect.

Our self-concept is how we see ourselves but our _______________ tends to become more differentiated as children become adolescents, and develop the ability to evaluate themselves in many different domains.

Primarily based on the early work of Sigmund Freud, a contemporary approach to development,  called _______________ theories, hold that development is largely determined by how well people resolve conflicts they encounter at different ages.

True/False: The cerebral cortex contains two halves—a left and a right—which are called hemispheres.