Which of the following students' statements would be the best example of the "normative male" concept?
a. Gloria: "Women need to learn to be as assertive as males are.".
b. Mike: "Gender differences have been found in certain kinds of aggressive behavior.".
c. Tallulah: "The typical American voter is a female.".
d. Humphrey: "In future years, we expect men's smoking behavior to become more like women's smoking behavior.".
A
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a. a fixation. b. an incongruence. c. androgyny. d. a cardinal trait.
When children in the concrete-operational stage are given hypothesis-testing problems to solve, they
a. reach correct solutions as efficiently as teenagers. b. reach correct solutions but more slowly than teenagers. c. test hypotheses but fail to isolate the effects of each variable. d. get frustrated and quit the effort early.
When an axo-axonic synapse results in a decrease of neurotransmitter released by a target axon, which of the following processes has occurred?
a. temporal summation b. spatial summation c. presynaptic facilitation d. presynaptic inhibition
Which of the following is INCORRECT regarding experience-dependent growth?
a. It denotes changes in the brain that are not linked to specific points in development. b. It denotes changes in the brain from environmental influences that typically occur at specified points in development. c. It varies across individuals. d. It varies across cultures.