On Kristina's first day of nursery school, she hovers near the door, unsure what to do. The teacher's aide leads her to the kitchen corner and suggests she have a tea party with another girl and two dolls. This is best seen as an example of
A) cognitive dissonance.
B) gender socialization.
C) hormone-environment interaction.
D) gender consistency.
Answer: B
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A. many teachers mark more harshly. B. all students are involved in sports programs. C. parents avoid school functions. D. adolescents drop out.
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a. are important in helping us remember items stored in long-term memory b. are aids in rote rehearsal in short-term memory c. can be helpful in both long and short-term memory d. have been recently shown to be inefficient in accessing available information in memory
Which statement regarding temperament is false?
a. The confidence level of mothers is related to temperament.
b. Some temperamental characteristics are more common is certain cultures.
c. Emotionality is unaffected by environmental factors.
d. Identical twins are more similar in temperament than are fraternal twins.
Dr. Palcon designs a study to test which strategy is best in terms of encouraging residents to recycle on a weekly basis. Dr. Palcon is most likely conducting ________ research
a. applied b. basic c. esoteric d. his dissertation