The Age at Which People Are Expected to Leave Home

question 269

Multiple Choice

The age at which people are expected to leave home, get a job, and marry has changed dramatically in Wallonia over the past 50 years. Developmentalists would say that the country's ________ has been altered.

• A) social clock
• B) pruning process
• C) maturation cycle
• D) critical period

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Definitions:

Qualitative Change

Discontinuous changes in kind, structure, or organization.

Theories Change

The concept that scientific theories evolve over time as new evidence emerges and older explanations are refined or replaced.

Incorporate

To include or integrate a part into a whole.

Assumptions

Beliefs or statements taken for granted without proof.