The social constructionist view is best supported by the finding that
a. we "see" feminine behavior in infants we believe are female and masculine behavior in infants we believe are male.
b. chromosomal patterns and hormones are the primary determinants of social behaviors.
c. atypical prenatal development can be easily corrected with hormonal treatment.
d. strangers treat boys and girls more similarly than parents do.
A
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The psychologist who proposed that the study of consciousness should be replaced by the study of behavior was
a. John B. Watson. b. Abraham Maslow. c. G. Stanley Hall. d. Sigmund Freud.
Cultural calibration of the biologically based emotion system refers to _____
a) front-end cultural influences b) back-end cultural influences c) emotional appraisals d) emotional antecedents
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Gender and sexual orientation are the same thing.
Consider the study with extreme groups of third grade boys and girls that found a 50% difference in the number of fights between the group that watched almost no violent TV and the group that watched a lot of violent TV. About half of the subjects were located 10 years later. What were the results?
(a) there were no differences between the groups 10 years later (b) the boys who had watched a lot of violence in the third grade were, on the average, more aggressive even 10 years later than those who had not (c) the girls who had watched a lot of violence in the third grade were, on the average, more aggressive even 10 years later than those who had not (d) the girls who had watched a lot of violence in the third grade were, on the average, less aggressive even 10 years later than those who had not