Which of the following best describes the difference between sex and gender?
A. Sex is a biological construct, and gender is a social construct.
B. Gender is a social construct, and sex is a biological construct.
C. Sex predicts a person's gender.
D. Gender predicts a person's sex.
Answer: B
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What is the estimated heritability for depressive disorder?
a. 5 percent b. 25 percent c. 50 percent d. 75 percent
Which situation best illustrates Beck's concept of overgeneralization in depressives? a. When it rains on the day of the picnic, the host feels he should have scheduled it for another day
b. Despite feeling great anger at his mother, a boy yells at himself. c. When a girl is complimented on her hair, she assumes that the person who complimented her was just showing pity for her. d. A man burns the toast one morning at breakfast and concludes that he is a worthless father and husband.
Pinizzotto and Finkel (1990) found that on the lineup identification task, profilers were the
A. most accurate for the homicide case (no differences between groups for the sexual offense case). B. least accurate for the homicide case (no differences between groups for the sexual offense case). C. least accurate for the sexual offense case (no differences between groups for the homicide case). D. most accurate for the sexual offense case (no differences between groups for the homicide case).
Your professor acknowledges that he is not a proponent of Freud's theory of personality. One day he begins the lecture by saying, "Today we will be discussing the weaknesses in Fraud's theory of personality."
Everyone laughs because they realize that the professor's error illustrates a. the collective unconscious. b. the consistency paradox. c. a fixation. d. a Freudian slip.