Current Findings on Parental Influences Provide Less Deterministic Explanations Than

Multiple Choice

Current findings on parental influences provide less deterministic explanations than did earlier theory and research on parenting. Contemporary research approaches include (a) behaviour-genetic designs, augmented with direct measures of potential environmental influences; (b) studies distinguishing among children with different genetically influenced predispositions in terms of their responses to different environmental conditions; and (c) experimental and quasi-experimental studies of change in children's behaviour as a result of their exposure to parents' behaviour, after controlling for children's initial characteristics. Indicate that parental influences on child development are neither as unambiguous as earlier researchers suggested nor as insubstantial as current critics claim. This supports the

A) Nature-only view
B) Nuture-only view
C) Interactionist perspecitive
D) Cultural psychology approach