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​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.

​When a parent helps their child acquire and master the social skills needed to have successful interactions with peers, that parent is acting in the role of a ____.

Intersensory _______________ is the theory that an infant’s sensory systems are attuned to information that is presented simultaneously to different sensory modes.

​When an object gets closer to you, the image of that object projected onto your left and right retinas moves farther apart. Conversely, as an object moves farther away, the image on your retinas gets closer together. The ability to determine distance based on this change in retinal projection is called retinal ____.