The basic purpose of learning is to make us better able to adapt to changing circumstances. Storing material using a maximum number of associations is called elaboration. Mnemonic devices are intended to improve memory. If driving a standard transmission car helps you drive an automatic transmission car, there is positive transfer . Development chapters 11 adolescence and 12 adulthood.
Nature refers to heredity, whereas nurture refers to environment.
During middle-adulthood many men become more feminine and many women become more masculine. Generally, bickering and arguing between parents and adolescents is at its worst during early adolescence. No, but males tend to more active in a large motor sense. Children who have an strongly dominant parent tend to identify with the dominant parent. Animal studies show that the so called maternal instinct is actually learned and does not naturally occur in either males or females.