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Infants can flail their arms around before they can move their hands and fingers with any precision. This illustrates which principle of growth?

The family systems approach to understanding families suggests that

Curtis often worries that his romantic partner doesn’t love him or wants to leave him. He desperately wants to be emotionally close to his partner.  A developmentalist would likely identify Curtis as having what type of attachment style?

Pam loves to play with other children. At the park, she frequently runs from the sandbox to her mommy, gives her a hug, and then runs back. When mom walks a short distance away to get some water, Pam begins to cry and runs after her. After they both get a drink, they head back toward the sandbox, with Pam running ahead to join the other children in play. Pam’s attachment relationship with her mother is best described as

Which American Indian tribe contributed to the war effort in the Pacific by using their language as a code the Japanese couldn’t break during World War II?

This World War II poster publicizes a national campaign aimed at  

How did the strategy of “leapfrogging” also known as island hopping, help the U.S. Navy advance in the Pacific during World War II?

Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War, and the Military Commanders whom he may from time to time designate, whenever he or any designated Commander deems such action necessary or desirable, to prescribe military areas in such places and of such extent as he or the appropriate Military Commander may determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded. . . . —President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 9066, February 19, 1942Which constitutional right was most directly violated by this executive order?

About what percentage of the United States workforce was unemployed at the height of the Great Depression?

Which government agency established during the Great Depression under the New Deal program, still protects consumer savings today?