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Young children develop a theory of mind about how people’s beliefs and desires combine to shape their actions.

Which of the following are proposed explanations for the acquisition of privileged domain knowledge?

Freud believed that children acquire their identity through distancing from one parent and identifying with the other parent.

The rules of a given language are called grammar.

Stage 3 (“good-child morality”) is the dominant mode of reasoning about moral questions until people reach their mid-twenties.

Qualitatively new patterns of behavior during development, such as the change from crawling to walking, are often referred to as:

Dating has been found to be universal across cultures during the adolescent years.

There is a great deal of cross-cultural variability in parenting behaviors that are recognized as abusive.

The different motor abilities of boys and girls are caused by differences in encouragement and rewards for participation in sports.

Bruner refers to socially patterned activities in which an adult and child do things to and with each other by the term: