Which of the following statements about gender and identity is true?
A) Girls attach greater prestige to "feminine" characteristics than to "masculine" characteristics.
B) Girls have greater flexibility than boys to engage in "cross-gender" activities.
C) Girls are especially likely to be rejected and ridiculed when experimenting with "masculine" activities.
D) From third to sixth grade, girls tend to strengthen their identification with "feminine" personality traits, whereas boys' identification with "masculine" traits declines.
B
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a. A magnetic field holds the person up. b. Most people can do this even without hypnosis. c. Hypnosis gives people greater strength than they would have otherwise. d. A wire that the audience doesn't see is supporting the person's back.
Which of the following research findings would lend support for a biological cause of autism?
a. Discovering that parents of autistic children are deficient in their parenting b. Finding that peer rejection is correlated with autistic behaviors in children c. Discovering that the concordance rates for ASDs are about 60% among identical twins d. Finding that poor nutrition is related to ASDs
Later onset Alzheimer's disease may be linked to ____ genes, which are those that increase one's likelihood of developing the illness in question
a. concordance b. eruption c. risk d. ascension
The sympathetic nervous system activates a(n) ____ response, and the parasympathetic nervous system activates a(n) ____ response
a. stress; calming b. calming; stress c. ?involuntary; voluntary d. ?voluntary; involuntary