Knowing That You Are Completing an Upper-Level Human Development Course

question 25

Multiple Choice

Knowing that you are completing an upper-level human development course, a relative asks you "Do human beings all develop alike, or do they differ dramatically?" Adopting the position favored by developmentalists today, you might answer by stressing that

• A) the most noteworthy and important aspects of human development are the normative patterns, or similarities, that humans display
• B) the most noteworthy and important aspects of human development are the idiosyncratic developments that contribute to human diversity
• C) human development always proceeds in both normative and idiosyncratic directions that developmentalists must seek to understand
• D) infants are very dissimilar early in life and develop to become more alike and less diverse with age

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