The predetermined unfolding of genetic information is known as __________.

Which of Bronfenbrenner’s five levels provides the connections between the various aspects of the person’s life, like links in a chain-to bind children to parents, students to teachers, employees to bosses, and friends to friends?

Researchers who are interested in the relationship between televised aggression and subsequent behavior have found that children who watch a good deal of televised aggression (murders, crime shows, shootings, etc.) tend to be more aggressive than those who watch little of this type of television programming. This is an example of a(n) ____________ study.

__________ research is designed to discover causal relationships between various factors.

The life span is usually divided into which specific broad age ranges?

Freud proposed a theory that suggests that unconscious forces act to influence personality and behavior. This is called the __________ theory.

An investigator typically devises two different conditions and then studies and compares the outcomes of the participants exposed to those two different conditions to see how behavior is affected. This is called a(n) __________.

Which developmental approach is at the forefront of cutting-edge research working with genes associated with disorders such as schizophrenia?

Professor Smythe wants to conduct a study in a virtual charter school. She wants to examine and describe the comparative differences on cognitive development in students attending the virtual charter school with students attending more traditional schools. Ultimately, she plans to describe what, if any, changes are occurring and why the changes create social difficulty. This is an example of what type of research?

Social-cognitive learning theorists argue that the difference between people and animals is the occurrence of __________.