Four-year-old Debbie tells her father that she wants to fix cars and be a race car driver when she grows up. Her father
tells her that she cannot do that because a person has to be "strong and rough and has to understand how machines work, and women have trouble doing that." Debbie's father is
a. explaining how biological biasing affects one's choice of occupations.
b. encouraging gender role stereotypes.
c. explaining what men and women are allowed to do in the American culture.
d. defining society's sexual scripts.
ANSWER: b
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c. The fact that abused children often experience depression. d. The fact that by age two, most children are about three feet tall.
According to attribution theory, people determine what has caused some event in their environment using three criteria:
a. persons, entities, or times. b. distinctiveness, consensus, or consistency. c. who, what, or when. d. internal, external, or global.
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a. exposure; generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) b. extinction; generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) c. psychoeducation; posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) d. exposure; posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
In severe cases of depression where the episode lasts five years or longer, how many of these patients can be expected to recover?
a. None b. About half c. Approximately one-third d. All