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4. ___ Empiricism: developmental changes can be measured.

5. ___ Organism: gestalt therapists emphasize the use of holistic models.

6. ___ Humans are naturally passive, which is part of evolution.

7. ___ Critical periods in human development make imprinting possible.

8. ___ Turner’s syndrome: a male shows no masculinity at puberty.

10. ___ People can experience primal scene and fixed-action patterns, respectively.
11. ___ Ethology is the study of human behavior in natural environments.
12. ___ higher order needs are associated with metaneeds.
13. ___ Continuity refers to traits and characteristics that persist through the lifespan.
14. ___ Cognitive development refers to processes that stimulate a child’s construction of the world.
15. ___ Herdity is associated with developmental stress.
16. ___ Older adults develop strategies to understand one’s life history.
17. ___ Each generation develops normative history-graded influences.
18. ___ Late adulthood development is based on regulation of loss.
19. ___ Research reveals that the majority of married adults in Western society are childless.
20. ___ Development is contextual.