What are the differences between sex and gender?
What will be an ideal response?
- Sex differences are biological. Only males can impregnate and only females can become pregnant, for example.
- Gender differences are based on learned behavior that is culturally associated with being a man or a woman.
- Gender is socially learned and reinforced characteristics that include one's biological sex and psychological characteristics.
- Gender role definitions are flexible, while sex differences are relatively fixed.
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the arguing. She remarks, "I'll go along with whatever the rest of you want, I just want to end the arguing. " Shannon is displaying which conflict management tactic? a. avoidance b. compromise c. accommodation d. competition e. appeasement
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a. True b. False
Explain the boomerang effect and how knowledge of that effect could help you plan a more effective persuasive speech?
What will be an ideal response?
Group members who speak more are often better liked than those who speak infrequently and are more likely to become a group's leader
True False