A Central Theme That Emerges from Both Freud's and Erikson's

question 31

Multiple Choice

A central theme that emerges from both Freud's and Erikson's views of development during the preschool period is that

• A) language, cognition, and motor skills are developmentally intertwined, and one aspect of development supports other aspects of development.
• B) the basis for children's social and personality development is their cognitive development.
• C) children's sexual development is triggered by social and emotional interactions with peers.
• D) families must balance their children's emerging skills and desire for autonomy with the parental need to protect and control their children.

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Definitions:

Level of Significance

A predetermined threshold in hypothesis testing, below which the null hypothesis is rejected, indicating statistical significance.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that assumes no significant difference or relationship exists in the general population from which a sample is drawn.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean; the square of the standard deviation.

Level of Significance

The probability threshold below which the null hypothesis is rejected in hypothesis testing, typically denoted by alpha (α).