The Child's Earliest Encounters That Could Be Labeled as Instrumentally

question 145

Multiple Choice

The child's earliest encounters that could be labeled as instrumentally aggressive are

• A)squabbles about toys.
• B)injuring others to cause pain deliberately.
• C)refusals to comply with parental commands.
• D)hurting younger sisters or brothers.

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Definitions:

Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium is a principle stating that genetic variant frequencies in a large, interbreeding population remain constant from one generation to the next, in the absence of other evolutionary influences.

Homozygous Dominant

An organism that carries two dominant alleles for a particular gene, expressing the dominant phenotype.

Stabilizing Selection

A type of natural selection that favors the average individuals in a population and reduces variation around the mean phenotype.

Gene Pool

All the alleles of all the genes in a population; a pool of genetic resources.