What trend/shift in fathering in developed countries has been seen recently?
What will be an ideal response?
Previously, women were left to do most of the childrearing, if not all. Lately, families have become more egalitarian. American fathers do about 85% of the childrearing that mothers do. Fathers are more likely to provide near-equal care for young children if both parents work similar hours and when marriage satisfaction is high.
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a. fixed action patterns. b. learned behavioral tendencies. c. survival mechanisms. d. reflexes.
If you make a snide remark to the school bully and you get "beat up," you will be less likely to make another snide remark to this bully due to the consequence known as
a. negative reinforcement. b. positive punishment. c. negative punishment. d. response cost.
How easily individuals can switch between different sets of rules or different tasks is called
a. selective attention. c. resisting interference. b. cognitive flexibility. d. working memory.
The term sexual arousal was introduced into the scientific literature in the ______.
a. 1890s b. 1910s c. 1930s d. 1950s