Juan and Juanita are teenagers. How might Juanita's self-esteem be different from her brother's throughout middle and high school?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: There is a perception that girls' self-esteem plunges at adolescence. There actually is a small decline in self-esteem during middle school that is very similar for boys and girls. However, girls' self-esteem does not increase as fast as boys' does between middle school and high school, leading to a larger sex difference in self-esteem during those years.
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A. social desirability bias B. reactivity C. participant observation D. self-report scale bias
Which of the following statements is true of instinctive behavior?
A) Instinctive behavior tends to resist modification, even when it serves no purpose. B) Instinctive behavior varies among the members of the species in which it appears. C) Instinctive behavior evolves only when some form of punishment is involved. D) Instinctive behavior does not appear when an individual is reared in isolation from others of its kind.
In I Do!, the article about video self-modeling (VSM), a situation was discussed in which people change
their behavior merely because they are being studied, regardless of what ismanipulated. This is called (a) the Hawthorne effect (b) the Participant effect (c) the Cloverdale effect (d) the research effect
According to Treisman's modified filter theory, which of the following is not true?
a. Many signals are passed on from the sensory registers at the same time. b. The cognitive filter works with a variable control like a volume control knob. c. The cognitive filter works even when we are asleep. d. Many signals in the sensory registers are able to receive our concentrated attention at a time.