Regarding gender role stereotypes, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Gender role stereotypes turn gender roles into false beliefs about what men and women can and cannot do.
b. Gender role stereotypes can reduce your chances of being hired whether you are a man or a woman.
c. Unlike other professions, the male-female pay and prestige differences are not found in academia (colleges and universities) because of the greater awareness of gender fairness.
d. Extreme gender stereotyping has declined somewhat in the last 20 years.
ANSWER: c
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A. a positive impact on print-related, oral language, and number recognition skills B. a negative impact on print-related and oral language skills as well as number recognition C. a positive impact on print-related, oral language, and number recognition, but only for children of highly educated parents D. no effect on language, preliteracy, or numeracy skills
In the long run, Watson's behaviorism ____.?
a. ?supplanted structuralism, pragmatism, and functionalism b. ?supplanted structuralism but has continued to evolve alongside functionalism c. ?has continually interacted with functionalism, borrowing some concepts while criticizing others d. ?supplanted structuralism and absorbed pragmatism and functionalism e. ?was absorbed into the mainstream of psychology and thereby lost its distinctiveness and revolutionary spirit and initiative
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a. African American children mature more quickly than European American children. b. African American children mature slower than European American children. c. African American children and European American children mature at the same rate d. Asian American children show some of the fastest rates of physical change
If both variables are measured on a nominal scale, what type of correlation coefficient is appropriate?
a. Spearman's rank-order correlation coefficient b. phi coefficient c. point-biserial correlation coefficient d. none, because correlations cannot be computed on nominal data