The Nature-Nurture Issue Is Concerned with

question 137

Multiple Choice

The nature-nurture issue is concerned with

• A) the connection of development in one domain to development in other domains.
• B) the role that children play in influencing their own development.
• C) the roles that biology and environment play in development.
• D) how early development is related to later development.

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Definitions:

Psychosexual Stage

A concept in Freudian psychology referring to the series of developmental stages children go through, where each stage is characterized by the erogenous zone that is the source of a child's psychosexual energy.

Latency Stage

A phase in Freudian psychosexual development occurring from age six to puberty, characterized by a decrease in sexual interest and activity.

Anal Stage

A phase in Freudian psychosexual development where a child's focus is on controlling bladder and bowel movements.

Oedipus Complex

In psychoanalysis, a conflict occurring in the phallic (Oedipal) stage, in which a child desires the parent of the other sex and views the same-sex parent as a rival.