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Erika has never put much faith in Freud's theories, especially the one about the "Oedipus Complex" and how it accounts for differences in male and female moral development. Her child development teacher challenged her to find out if there is any empirical evidence to back up Freud's claims. Is there empirical evidence to back up Freud's claim?

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/psyc/vornikFreud/oedip.htm
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Sean has to do a presentation in his psychology class on how ethological theories can be utilized to understand some aspects of child development. How can find information to compare and contrast how and why non-human primates and human beings imitate others of their species?

http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/EP/Ethology.html - Animal imitation
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For her senior psychology project, Doris wants to study the effect on self-esteem of mandatory school uniforms. She wants to limit her study to fourth graders. She has located a school with a mandatory uniform policy and one without such a policy. What type of research design will she use?

http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/





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