Evolutionary Developmental Psychology

question 54

Multiple Choice

Evolutionary developmental psychology

• A) focuses on how the structures of the mind develop to better fit with, or represent, the external world.
• B) seeks to understand the adaptive value of specieswide cognitive, emotional, and social competencies as those competencies change with age.
• C) views the human mind as a symbol-manipulating system through which information flows.
• D) brings together researchers from psychology, biology, neuroscience, and medicine to study the relationship between changes in the brain and the developing person's cognitive processing and behavior patterns.

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