Developmental psychologists are MOST likely to study
A) how people acquire, process and retrieve information.
B) how individuals develop physically, intellectually, socially, and emotionally.
C) the psychological processes that underlie people's enduring patterns of behavior.
D) how behavior is influenced by genes and hormones.

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Developmental psychologists study how individuals develop physically, intellectually, socially, and emotionally over the course of their lives. This includes topics such as childhood development, adolescence, and adulthood. While other areas of psychology may also study aspects of development, such as cognition (A) or personality (C), developmental psychology focuses specifically on the study of human growth and development. Genetic and hormonal influences on behavior may also be studied, but this is not the primary focus of developmental psychology (D).

Developmental Psychologists Are MOST Likely to Study