Hill and Lynch (1991) argue that the increase in the intensity of gender socialization at adolescence is
a. the same for boys and girls.
b. greater for boys than for girls.
c. greater for girls than for boys.
d. dependent upon socio-economic status
Answer: c
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a. Halfway houses are designed to ease a patient's return to the community. b. Halfway houses are helpful in keeping patients close to their families. c. Halfway houses can reduce a person's chances of being readmitted to a hospital. d. Halfway houses are examples of partial hospitalization.
A system is only considered to be a "sense" if it
A. translates information from the environment so that the nervous system can be affected by it. B. is linked to a corresponding perceptual process. C. can use top-down and bottom-up processing. D. involves information from the environment.
Which of the following statements is TRUE with respect to health psychology?
a) It achieved prominence as a field in the early 20th century. b) It has become an important part of psychology in the early 1900s. c) It is especially important given the lingering, incurable nature of current leading causes of death. d) it is primarily focused on helping people understand development during the lifespan.
According to the text, why did Carr develop and propose the adaptive act?
a. To counter the structuralists’ single-minded obsession against mentalism b. To counter the behaviorists’ single-minded obsession against mentalism c. To maintain introspection as the foremost research method of psychology d. To maintain introspection as a significant research method in psychology