Which Statement About the Results of Research on Developmental Cascades

question 25

Multiple Choice

Which statement about the results of research on developmental cascades is most accurate?

• A) Development of specific cognitive skills are rarely mediated by social and cultural context.
• B) Infants who exhibit strong novelty preference continue to exhibit strong novelty preference into adolescence when teens are tested in a habituation-novelty preference experiment.
• C) Because cognitive skills in infancy are discontinuous, they show no prediction for cognitive skills later in life.
• D) Cognitive skills in infancy predict a range of cognitive skills into adulthood and have also been found to cascade to employment and wellbeing decades later.
• E) Cognitive skills in infancy predict cognitive skills in childhood, particularly for similar types of skills such as memory.

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