Which of the following best reflects gender differences in verbal ability?
a. Only 10 percent of the published studies on gender differences found that females had greater verbal ability.
b. Girls tend to be better readers than boys, but boys are better with fine motor skills.
c. Boys have more language-related problems than girls.
d. The quality of speech production is lower in girls than in boys.
c
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b. motion parallax. c. cephalocaudal development. d. dendritic expansion.
Form errors in reasoning occur because __________
a. logical reasoning forms don't take into account the real world b. people don't use proper logic notation c. euler circles have been shown to be false d. people use invalid logical forms, such as affirming the consequent
Within the species of primates, which animal seems to exhibit tool use regularly and consistently?
a. The gorilla. b. The common chimpanzee. c. The New World capuchin monkey. d. The orangutan.
If you use the Internet, you are probably familiar with emoticons: facial expressions displayed using a combination of typographic figures, e.g., :-) for a smile. Asian countries have their own set of emoticons; in these (which are viewed without having to turn one’s head), there are different smiling facial figures for a man smiling (^_^) and a woman smiling (^ . ^), since in Japan, women are not supposed to exhibit a wide, uninhibited smile. This difference between the men’s and women’s emoticons in Japan is due to a(n):
a. emblem.
b. display rule.
c. affect blend.
d. decoding difference.