Which of the following factors are cited by your authors as being at least partially responsible for the underrepresentation of women in the "hard sciences"?
A) Discrimination and societal expectations
B) Genetic disadvantages
C) Stereotype threat
D) Demand characteristics
Answer: A
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a. a framing effect b. functional fixedness c. the representativeness heuristic d. the availability heuristic
The contemporary perspective on adolescence is that ______.
A. extreme volatility is part of normal healthy development B. moodiness is inevitable and universal C. adolescent stress is not typically a development problem D. the majority of adolescents do not get along with their parents
Historically, before the 1970s, researchers believed that formal operations ____
a. do not develop in many cultures, particularly in cultures that do not have formal schooling b. developed much sooner than Piaget proposed, closer to age 9 c. develop much faster in girls than in boys because of social and emotional maturity d. only developed in the United States and for unknown reasons it did not develop in other industrialized nations
Suppose you conducted a survey of older Americans. If your results mirrored those of a study reported in the text, you would find that most older adults:
a. believe that they are among the "lucky few" older adults to be in a favorable economic and social position b. are actually considerably worse off economically than they perceive themselves to be c. have considerably poorer health than they perceive themselves to have d. have much poorer memory abilities than they think they do