Describe sex differences in body growth.
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In infancy, girls are slightly shorter and lighter than boys, with a higher ratio of fat to muscle. These small sex differences persist throughout early and middle childhood and are greatly magnified at adolescence. However, body size is not sufficient to indicate how quickly a child's physical growth is progressing. The best estimate of a child's physical maturity is skeletal age, a measure of bone development. When skeletal ages are examined, girls are considerably ahead of boys. At birth, the sexes differ by about 4 to 6 weeks, a gap that widens over infancy and childhood. Girls are advanced in development of other organs as well.
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a. scientific questions are ultimately philosophical questions b. they would still violate the principle of falsifiability because of their subjective nature c. understanding the human mind has extraordinary methodological limitations d. scientific solutions can only attain the status of “not yet disconfirmed”
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a. shading b. haze c. overlap d. convergence
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a. false consensus hypothesis b. actor-observer bias c. self-serving bias d. locus of control effect
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false