​As an exercise in your human development class, your teacher proposes a new developmental theory of personality development. She states that personality is markedly different in adulthood than in childhood, is completely determined by the environment, and develops pretty much the same across cultures. Describe the three recurring issues in human development and where this new theory stands in relationship to these three issues.

​When a phenotype reflects the combined activity and influence of many separate genes, the pattern is known as _______________ inheritance.

Modern industrial cultures tend to favor people who are _______________-handed, as you may see from the way simple objects and machines are often designed.

​_______________ refers to a birth complication in which umbilical blood flow is disrupted and the infant does not receive adequate oxygen.

​Why would it be fair to say that physicians Grantly Dick-Read and Ferdinand Lamaze revolutionized approaches to childbirth?

​Jason is looking around the living room for his car keys and says out loud, “Where are my keys?” His one-year old son, Eli, is sitting in his high-chair eating graham crackers, and watching Jason struggle to find the keys. Which of the following statements BEST describes Eli’s perception of this search?

​Which of the stages of labor is the briefest, and typically involves only a few “pushes” to expel the placenta?

​Because children with autism spectrum disorders tend to master false belief tasks very slowly, researchers have speculated that an absence of ____ is the primary component of these conditions.

​Use the biopsychosocial framework to describe four factors that could be important in the development of parenting skills.

​The first of Piaget’s four proposed stages of cognitive development, occurring in infancy, is called the _______________ stage.