What is a polarized thinking?

What will be an ideal response?


ANS: Polarized thinking is conceiving of things as absolute opposites. Something is right or wrong; a person is male or female or masculine or feminine. Our commonly used vocabulary emphasizes all-or-none terms and thus all-or-none thinking.

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Over the last few decades, suburbanization has generated _____, business centers that are within or close to suburban residential areas.

A. shopping malls B. exurbs C. metropolitan areas D. edge cities E. suburbs

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Overall, how is Third Wave Feminism different from Second Wave Feminism?

A) critique of beauty culture B) points out that women aren’t paid as much as men C) supports transsexual lifestyles D) none of the above

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The term ______ group describes a group of people set apart by their national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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What term did Sigmund Freud use to refer to a person's conscious efforts to balance pleasure seeking with the demands of society?

a. superego b. id c. unconscious d. ego

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