If you go to a schoolyard when children are at play, it is quite likely that you will notice that the girls are playing separately from the boys. This phenomenon is known as
a. sex segregation. c. sex discrimination.
b. gender separation. d. a gender difference.
A
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Which of the following factors contributes to child abuse?
A. middle-income socioeconomic status B. multigenerational families living in the same house C. families with only one child D. families living in stressful conditions
Rosie got a bad grade on a test. Instead of admitting that she didn't study as much as she should have, she tells her parents that it is because the teacher didn't prepare her well enough and that she was having a bad day. This is due to:
A) the correspondence bias. B) the self-fulfilling prophecy. C) situational attribution. D) dispositional attribution.
In Vygotsky's theory of development, the tasks that children can learn to do with the assistance of others are in the
A. zone of proximal development. B. state of object permanence. C. stage of egocentrism. D. process of naive theories.
Your sister-in-law just finished her fourth month of pregnancy. She swears that she can feel the movements of her fetus. Is this likely?
A. Yes, she has probably been feeling the fetus move since the second month. B. Yes, pregnant women can usually begin feeling the fetus's movements by the fourth month of pregnancy. C. No, the fetus is not developed enough to move very much until the end of the sixth month of pregnancy. D. No, it is very difficult for a pregnant woman to feel the fetus's movement until the fetus is viable, during the 8th month of pregnancy.