Suppose that you are looking at your nephew's high-school psychology textbook, and it says that males are more aggressive than females. What would you conclude?
a. You would question the operational definition of aggression that the researchers had used.
b. You would be fairly confident that the results could not be explained by confounding variables.
c. You would be suspicious that the textbook writers focused on the studies that showed gender similarities, rather than those that showed gender differences.
d. You would know that the researchers had tested people from at least two ethnic groups.
A
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a. outright rejection. b. reluctance and resistance. c. cautious optimism. d. acceptance and praise.
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