Imagine that an article has just been published; it claims that girls score lower than boys on a test of logical reasoning. If parents convey these expectations to their sons and daughters, and the children actually act according to these beliefs, one possible explanation for these findings is
a. gender-consistent memory bias.
b. self-fulfilling prophecy.
c. gender polarization.
d. heterosexism.
B
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Pupil diameter a. does not change
b. adjusts to the temperature of the external environment. c. responds only to the amount of light present in the environment. d. responds to the amount of light present in the environment as well as the organism's emotional state.
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