Five-year-old Sandra knows that she is a girl, that girls are not supposed to get dirty, and that she wants to be an astronaut, even though most astronauts are not women. This information is all relevant to the concept known as
a. a stereotype.
b. modeling.
c. social constructionism.
d. gender typing.
D
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a. Depth of processing b. Base-rate information c. Spreading activation d. The framing effect
What is the goal of psychosocial assessment?
What will be an ideal response?
Two of the most notable aspects of postformal thinking in emerging adulthood are ____
a. animism and personal fables b. egocentrism and reality testing c. hypothetical and deductive reasoning d. pragmatism and reflective judgment
If you were raised in a collectivistic culture, how might your friends describe you compared with how you would describe yourself?
A. Your friends would refuse to describe you. B. Your friends would describe you the same way that you would describe yourself. C. Your friends would describe you more negatively than you would describe yourself. D. Your friends would describe you more positively than you would describe yourself.