Explain why many people find it difficult to interact with someone without knowing that person's gender

What will be an ideal response?


It is difficult to know how to interact with someone whose gender we do not know because we are so programmed to react to people first according to their gender. Even our language is constructed around gender. Every time you refer to a person, you must write either "he" or "she.". Therefore, every sentence you write about a person reveals his or her gender, even if it reveals nothing else about that person.

Psychology

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a. perfect correlation b. negative correlation c. positive correlation d. cause-and-effect relationship

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Recent research on numerical concepts in infants has found that young children

a. cannot tell the difference between smaller and larger numbers. b. cannot make a one-to-one correspondence between two small sets of objects. c. do not show any evidence of manipulating and understanding numbers. d. show some evidence for simple manipulations and relative relationships among smaller and larger numbers.

Psychology

Side effects of amyl nitrate include ____

a. severe dizziness, migraine headaches, and fainting b. premature ejaculation c. bruising and rashes d. delayed ejaculation

Psychology

When children are learning a new activity, they often talk aloud in order to give support and directions to themselves. Vygotsky referred to this type of "talking aloud" as

A) public speech. B) private speech. C) mental speech. D) social speech.

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