The ability of infants as young as 3 to 4 months of age to distinguish between male and female faces as shown by habituation and preferential looking studies reflects which explanation of gender role development?
A. Cognitive-developmental explanation
B. Contextual explanation
C. Biological explanation
D. Psychoanalytic explanation
Answer: A
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Which statement about cultural influences on perception is FALSE?
a. Cultural experience teaches the child how to interpret sensations. b. Musical appreciation is most accurate with music that is familiar within one's own culture. c. Perceptual learning tends to erase cultural influences. d. Culture guides the child in discarding unnecessary perceptual abilities.
Industrial psychology was so named because most of the focus was on
A) the workplace and home. B) engineering and psychology because the U.S. economy was based on manufacturing. C) selection of personnel for white collar jobs. D) corporation and office work because the global economy was heavily reliant on this work.
The rule of the Wason four-card problem is, "If there is a vowel on one side, then there is an even number on the other side." Let's say you are presented with A, 8, M, and 13, each showing on one of four cards. To see if the rule is valid, you would have to turn over the cards showing
A. 8 and M. B. A and M. C. A and 13. D. 8 and 13.
The pursuit of truth through the use of reason is called ______________.
a. idealism b. logic c. cognitivism d. rationalism