During ______, Children's Focus Shifts from Parents or Guardians to Peers

question 42

Multiple Choice

During ______, children's focus shifts from parents or guardians to peers.

• A) early childhood
• B) later childhood
• C) adolescence
• D) early adulthood

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Definitions:

Scientific Method

A systematic process of inquiry involving observation, experimentation, and the analysis of data to gain understanding and make conclusions.

Cause-And-Effect Relationship

A principle describing a relationship in which one event (the cause) makes another event happen (the effect), with one being the result of the other.

Scientific Observation

Watching and recording participants’ behavior in a systematic and objective manner—in a natural setting, in a laboratory, or in searches of archival data.

Systematic

Characterized by having a methodical plan or procedure, especially in the context of scientific research or thorough investigation.