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You are looking out into your yard at a beautiful Japanese maple tree. You notice the tree has many branches with lovely purple leaves on them. The leaves are capturing raindrops from the current storm. If this tree were actually a neuron, the leaves that capture incoming information would be the ________.

​The sac in which an embryo rests during the second stage of prenatal development is called the _______________.

In _______________-directed speech, adults tend to speak very slowly and to exaggerate their changes in pitch and loudness.

​Your authors give several examples of how research in human development has shaped social policies in the United States of America. Which social policy issues have NOT, according to your text, been affected by research on human development?

Bonds is trying to teach his son Barry to hit a baseball (a task that Barry has never before attempted). How might the concept of a zone of proximal development come into play in this situation, and what technique might Bonds use to improve his son’s performance? Finally, how will Bonds most effectively used scaffolding in this circumstance?

​With regard to the ability to see colors, newborns

​Which of the following must occur before research with humans can be ethically conducted?

​Which of the following values indicates the strongest relationship between two variables as measured by a correlation coefficient?

​A group of compounds that provides a specific set of biochemical instructions for development is a(n) _______________.

​_______________ observations differ from naturalistic observations in that they create situations where the behavior of interest is likely to be elicited.