Regarding Early Emotional Development, Which of the Following Statements Is

question 31

Multiple Choice

Regarding early emotional development, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)Experts agree that anger is the most common infant expression shown.
• B)At first, a baby's smiling is haphazard.
• C)Infants use their social smile to communicate interest in an object.
• D)Children by age three will have a unique personality.

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Definitions:

Nature

The inherent qualities or characteristics of something, or the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, landscapes, and other features and products of the earth.

Nurture

The influence of external factors like environment, education, and social experiences on the development of an individual.

Natural Selection

The process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of the effect of inherited traits on the differential reproductive success of organisms interacting with their environment.

Epigenetics

The study of heritable changes in gene expression that do not involve changes to the underlying DNA sequence, often influenced by environmental factors.