Taylor, Rhodes, and Gelman (2009) investigated reasoning about gender-related properties. Which of the following does NOT accurately describe the researchers' conclusions?
a. Children and college students claimed greater flexibility in behavioral properties for boys than for girls.
b. Children and college students thought that girls were more likely to be influenced in a masculine direction than boys were to be influenced in a feminine direction.
c. Children treat the concepts of boy and girl as equivalent to species, in the extent to which features are inborn, inflexible, and intrinsically linked to category membership.
d. College students viewed both male and female behavior as more open to the environment and more flexible.
b
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).