The tendency of children to develop a mental pattern for being male or female in much the same way they develop other concepts, such as "dog," "bird," and "big," can best be explained by __________
a) Freudian psychoanalysis.
b) Piaget's theory of development.
c) gender schema theory.
d) social learning theory.
c
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Your clock makes a clicking sound just before the alarm. Initially that sound didn't waken you, but now it does, due to classical conditioning. What is waking up?
a. Conditioned stimulus b. Unconditioned stimulus c. Both conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus d. Both conditioned response and unconditioned response
Imagine that you have conducted your own research on gender comparisons, and you find that the females vary widely from one another; the males also show wide variation. Your statistical analysis is likely to conclude that the
a. difference between females and males is not statistically significant. b. difference between females and males has practical significance. c. large variation within each gender must be caused by one or more confounding variables. d. difference between males and females is larger than the differences within each gender.CHAPTER 2Gender Stereotypes andOther Gender Biases
Ezra is watching a movie and as the star tries to deal with various difficulties, Ezra finds himself laughing uncontrollably with tears streaming down his face. These reactions are part of the
a. physiological component in Ezra's emotional experience. b. cognitive component in Ezra's emotional experience. c. behavioral component in Ezra's emotional experience. d. objective component in Ezra's emotional experience.
After an evil scientist destroys part of Patrick's brain, Patrick finds that he is constantly hungry and he eats much more than before. The scientist has likely destroyed Patrick's ____.?
a. ?amygdala b. ?hypothalamus c. ?thalamus d. ?hippocampus