Denise instructs her six-year-old daughter to act like a young lady and to cross her legs at the ankle when she sits on a chair. This expectation of behavior is an example of:
a. androgynous beliefs c. gender roles
b. dispositional traits d. gender stereotypes
C
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a. Convergence b. Motion parallax c. Texture gradient d. Retinal disparity
To say that children engage in "magical thinking" means they
a. believe all objects and events in the world have been manufactured to serve people b. attribute life and consciousness to objects that others think of as inanimate c. explain events by the causal influence of various commands, intentions, and forces d. all of these e. none of these
According to Ekman's research on facial expressions ________
a. when people try to hide their feelings with an inauthentic expression, they use different groups of muscles than they do for authentic emotions. b. authentic smiles last ten seconds or more, whereas false smiles last only about two seconds. c. when trying to feign sadness, only about 60 percent of people manage to get the eyebrows, eyelids, and forehead wrinkle exactly right. d. there is little support for Darwin's evolutionary theory that certain human facial expressions are innate.
Although Einstein's brain was of normal overall size, there
were parts of his cerebral cortex that had a unique anatomy and were larger than in most other brains. The parts of Einstein's cerebral cortex that were larger were the ones necessary for a. memory. b. verbal reasoning. c. spatial reasoning. d. auditory comprehension.