The Psychology Department Is Debating What to Include in Their

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Multiple Choice

The psychology department is debating what to include in their Human Development course.Some professors want to teach about the life-span approach, whereas others want to deliver a traditional philosophy.They disagree about:

• A)the plasticity of development.
• B)the multidimensional nature of development.
• C)whether most significant change occurs from birth to adolescence or well into later phases of life.
• D)Freud's psychosocial theories.

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Definitions:

Cognition

All aspects of thinking, knowing, and understanding reflecting mental activities such as attention, memory, problem-solving, and language comprehension.

Inattentional Blindness

The psychological phenomenon where an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus in plain sight, purely as a result of lack of attention rather than any vision defects or deficits.

Sequential Processing

The cognitive process of understanding and managing information in a specific, ordered sequence, critical for tasks such as problem-solving and learning.

Blindsight

A phenomenon in which people who are perceptually blind in a certain area of their visual field demonstrate some response to visual stimuli in that area without consciously perceiving them.