What Do MOST Developmentalists Today Believe About the Contributions of Heredity

question 25

Multiple Choice

What do MOST developmentalists today believe about the contributions of heredity and the environment to development?

• A)Heredity plays the dominant role in development.
• B)Environment plays the dominant role in development.
• C)Heredity and environment interact to produce development.
• D)Development follows its own path regardless of heredity or environment.

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Definitions:

Rational Emotive Therapy

A form of psychotherapy that helps individuals identify self-defeating thoughts and feelings, challenge the rationality of those feelings, and replace them with healthier, more productive beliefs.

Cognitive

Pertaining to mental processes such as perception, memory, thinking, and problem solving.

Rational-Emotive

Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a form of psychotherapy which focuses on resolving emotional and behavioral problems and disturbances by confronting irrational beliefs and changing them.

Albert Ellis

A psychologist and psychotherapist who founded Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy.