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Question 1

Each individual experience a different developmental niche. Even children in the same family often have quite different experiences, in part because their genetic differences act in

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different ways on that environment, producing different outcomes

Question 2

Families play a especially important role in shaping their children’s behavior and self-concept, as well as in embedding them into their society and culture. When families find themselves in situations where different cultural expectations are in conflict, this can cause

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family conflict and make cultural transmission more difficult

Question 3

A group of individuals born during the same historical era is called an

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age cohort

Question 4

How can cultural factors influence age cohorts in different ways?

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Through biological and social changes that normally happen at the same age, through major historical events that affect most people in a society, and factors that can affect individuals at any point

Question 5

Children and older adults are strongly affected by

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• age-graded influences,
• history-graded influences