Kohlberg suggested a cognitive-developmental view of gender typing that suggests that
a. gender is "stamped" into the wiring of the brain and how it processes information.
b. children play an active role in their own gender typing by forming concepts of gender and then fitting theirbehavior to those concepts
c. caregivers are the sole determining force in the gender typing of children.
d. the development of gender stereotypes is genetic and evolutionarily advantageous.
b
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a. the conditioned response. b. self-observation. c. conscious experience. d. unconscious motivation.
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a. nociceptive b. proprioceptive c. neuropathic d. referred
List and give examples of the four forms of child maltreatment. Who is most likely to commit each form of child maltreatment?
What will be an ideal response?
According to the text, the division of biopsychology that deals generally with the biology of behavior, rather than specifically with the neural mechanisms of behavior, is
A) physiological psychology. B) psychobiology. C) neural biology. D) comparative psychology. E) none of the above