What do a growing percentage of physicians recommend for infants with an intersex appearance?
a. Rear all such children as females
b. Rear all such children as males.
c. While the child is young, perform surgery to make the genitals look normal.
d. Perform no genital surgery unless the person requests it later in life.
d
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The "double standard of aging" concept typically means that
a. women are allowed to grow old gracefully, whereas men must be concerned about preserving a "macho" image. b. people judge elderly women more negatively than they judge elderly men. c. as women grow older, they are judged in terms of competence, whereas men are judged in terms of power. d. older women are expected to be lively and sociable, whereas older men are viewed as lonely and depressed.
While reading a book about Sigmund Freud, you come upon the term "psychosomatic.". You cannot quite figure out the meaning of the word from the context in which it is used, and so you bring to mind your rudimentary knowledge of the parts of the word. You know that "psycho" has to do with the mind or with thinking, and you also know that "somatic" has to do with the body. Looking back at the book, you come to the conclusion that "psychosomatic" has to do with the mind's influence on one's physical state. You have just relied on
a. selective accommodation. b. selective encoding. c. selective comparison. d. selective search strategies.
The criterion that a particular behavior be atypical or not culturally expected is insufficient to define abnormality because
A. behavior that occurs infrequently is considered abnormal in every culture. B. the atypical behavior must also cause harm or impairment to be considered abnormal. C. behaviors vary very little from one individual to another within each culture. D. many people behave in ways that deviate from the average, but this doesn't mean that they have a disorder.
Critics of learning theory point out that it cannot account for ______.
A. abstract language B. unique utterances C. disobedience D. irony