According to Okin, women are prevented from competing on an equal footing with men in the career arena because ________

A. women are less career-oriented than men are
B. women have a higher standard of living than men
C. society expects women to be the primary ones to care for children and the home
D. men are more capable than women in all areas except the domestic arena


Answer: C

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a. are capable of making moral claims against one another. b. possess immortal souls. c. possess the capacity for multi-level abstract reasoning. d. recognize the truth of the Golden Rule. e. possess language capacities.

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Which of the following in an experiment is the variable that is manipulated by the experimenter?

A. Independent variable B. Dependent variable C. Objective variable D. Coextensive variable

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Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. The beating of your heart results from physiological mechanisms fundamentally no different from those that

underlie heart function in fishes, frogs, and birds. Likewise, the molecular events that produce an electrical nerve impulse in your brain are fundamentally the same as those that produce an impulse in the nerve of a squid or rat. For these reasons, animal physiology has made innumerable contributions to our understanding of human physiology. David Randall et al., Animal Physiology A) Argument; conclusion: Likewise, the molecular events ... nerve of a squid or rat. B) Nonargument. C) Argument; conclusion: The beating of your heart ... frogs, and birds. D) Argument; conclusion: The beating of your heart ... physiological mechanisms. E) Argument; conclusion: Animal physiology ... human physiology.

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When an arguer attempts to sidetrack his/her audience by raising an irrelevant issue, this is called _____________________________.

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word.

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