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You are feeling upset. Your mother turns toward you and says, “Turn that frown upside down.” You turn your frown into a smile and realize that you start feeling happy. This experience is best described by the

Write your answers to the following in the space below.  Please label your answers as (a), (b), and (c). a) Which of the following does a hermaphrodite have?  Ovaries only, Testes only, Both Ovaries and Testes, Neither Ovaries nor Testes b) True or False  Hermaphroditism is a form of asexual reproduction. c) Describe the advantage that a flatworm has by being a hermapphrodite that makes it worth the cost. 

Infant attachment is

Ian came home after curfew. Without listening to his explanation, his parents sent him to his room and informed him that he was grounded for a month. Which type of parenting did Ian’s parents demonstrate?

When Benjamin is six, his mother helps him study spelling words, by telling him to write them 10 times each. Then she calls the words out to him, and she tries to help him come up with methods of remembering words he struggles to learn. By the time he’s 12, Benjamin’s mother is still helping with his homework, but all she does is call out questions after Benjamin has studied on his own. When Benjamin is in high school, his mother doesn’t have to help him study any more, because he has learned how. What does Vygotsky call what Ben’s mother was doing?

Chloe is a baby who cries a lot. She does not eat or sleep on a regular schedule, and she often has difficulty adapting to new experiences. According to psychiatrists Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas, Chloe’s temperament can be described as

Write your answers to the following questions in the space below.  Please label your answers as (a), (b) and (c). The planaria, a free-living platyhelminth, does gas exchange across their surface of the body and does not have any specialized gas exchange structures. Yet it is not constrained to having cell layers that are only one cell layer thick like the sponges and cnidarians. a) In order to overcome the constraint that diffusion places on a body plan without a specialized gas exchange structure, would the ratio of the body surface area to the body volume need to be high or low?     b) Explain how the flatworm’s way of doing gas exchange constrains their body plan so that they can provide effective gas exchange to keep the animal alive.           

Rashad is an active 1-year-old child. He has a regular routine for playing, eating, and sleeping, and he is mostly in a positive mood. He is observant and readily approaches and adapts to new situations. According to psychiatrists Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas’s classification of basic types of temperament in children, Rashad can be considered a(n)

A six-year-old child with a mental age of 6 would have an IQ of

In the context of human development, ________ refers to an individual’s environmental and social experiences.