The individual differences feature in Chapter 7 examines gender comparisons in mental-rotation skills. According to this discussion,
a. gender differences tend to be smaller for mental-rotation problems than for other mental imagery tasks.
b. none of the research has reported significant gender differences in mental rotation.
c. all of the research has reported significant gender differences in mental rotation.
d. the research sometimes shows that the gender differences in mental rotation disappear when the instructions are changed.
Ans: d
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Which of the following statements is true?
a. Some third places exist online, in places such as social networking and gaming sites. b. Most online social sites, because of their anonymity, cannot provide sufficient human connection to function as third places. c. Most third places charge admission to regulate who joins. d. Third places are more likely to exist in rural areas rather than urban settings. e. Third places are called third places because they are usually populated by people who root for the third place team instead of the first and second place team.
Eysenck sees the characteristics of personality as being related to the four types of temperament first recognized by the early Greeks. Which of the following is NOT one of those four types?
a. melancholic b. choleric c. sanguine d. somatic
Brain lateralization has been used to explain the observed sex differences in visual-spatial skills. Which of the following is not a premise of the brain lateralization hypothesis?
a. Rapid maturation of the brain produces less eventual lateralization of the brain. b. Verbal skills develop sooner than visual-spatial skills. c. Verbal processing in both hemispheres rather than in just one hemisphere improves visual-spatial processing. d. Girls' brains mature more quickly than boys' brains.
?Which statement regarding temperament is false?
a. The confidence level of mothers is related to temperament.
b. Some temperamental characteristics are more common is certain cultures.
c. Emotionality is unaffected by environmental factors.
d. Identical twins are more similar in temperament than are fraternal twins.