Evolutionary developmental psychology
A) focuses on how the structures of the mind develop to better fit with, or represent, the external world.
B) seeks to understand the adaptive value of specieswide cognitive, emotional, and social competencies as those competencies change with age.
C) views the human mind as a symbol-manipulating system through which information flows.
D) brings together researchers from psychology, biology, neuroscience, and medicine to study the relationship between changes in the brain and the developing person's cognitive processing and behavior patterns.

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Evolutionary developmental psychology seeks to understand how specieswide cognitive, emotional, and social competencies change with age and their adaptive value. It does not focus on the development of the structures of the mind to fit with the external world (A), view the mind as a symbol-manipulating system (C), or solely bring together researchers from psychology, biology, neuroscience, and medicine to study brain changes and behavior patterns (D).

Evolutionary Developmental Psychology