Maccoby and Jacklin’s 1974 review of gender differences in verbal abilities concluded that ______.
a. females outperform males on a variety of verbal tasks from the age of 5 on
b. females outperform males on a variety of verbal tasks from the age of 11 on
c. females exhibit larger vocabularies than males from the age of 8 on
d. the female advantage in verbal abilities ends in high school
b. females outperform males on a variety of verbal tasks from the age of 11 on
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a. Consumer b. Industrial/organizational c. Environmental d. Clinical e. Geropsychologist
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a. ?shaping b. ?secondary reinforcement c. ?backward conditioning d. ?stimulus discrimination
Colleen is trying to decide which of two events to enter in the school track meet. She thinks she would have a better chance of winning the 100 meter race, but decides to enter the 10,000 meter race instead. According to Rotter's theory,
A. her generalized expectancies determined this decision. B. the reinforcement value of winning the 10,000 meter race is greater than the reinforcement value of winning the 100 meter race. C. the decision illustrates that the behavior potential does not always determine behavior. D. she must have been reinforced for winning the 10,000 meter race in the past.
Which of the following statements regarding TV aggression is true?
A) By the time children in the United States leave elementary school, they have watched more than 8,000 TV murders. B) Adult-focused prime time television dramas contain much more aggression than children's cartoons. C) In general, television shows depict violence and aggressive behavior in a true-to-life manner. D) Researchers have found no evidence that TV aggression affects children's thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.