Which of the following statements regarding the impact of education on gender roles is FALSE?
A) ?Boys are more likely than girls to receive remedial help from teachers.
B) ?Elementary school girls are more likely to receive praise from their teachers than are elementary school boys.
C) ?American schools have made a concerted effort to ensure equal educational opportunities for both sexes in math and science in recent years.
D) ?Teachers are more likely to tolerate inappropriate behavior of boys than girls.
B
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A psychologist who adheres to the Gestalt school is staring at a banana. Which of the following statements is she most likely to make?
a. I see a long, curved, yellow object with a dark stem at one end. b. I think that banana would really take the edge off of my hunger right now. c. I see a banana. d. I see a series of curved lines converging at two points, with the color yellow in between them. There is also a small "u"-shaped line connected to one conversion point for the other lines. The color brown is inside of it.
If a child says that his mother won't mind that he took cookies from the cookie jar because she likes cookies, then the child is in Selman's __________ stage
a. undifferentiated c. self-reflective b. social-informational d. third-person
Betty gets upset when her brother snatches her doll. As explained to her by her mother, Betty knows that her brother is just an infant and she should not get angry with him. She picks up a different toy and starts playing with it. Betty's action illustrates _____
A) insecure attachment B) emotional regulation C) indiscriminate attachment D) social referencing
Individual differences in children's grammatical development show that:
A. children who adopt a holistic style in which they focus on the overall tune of a sentence tend to acquire their grammar much later than children who adopt an analytic style in which they focus on the smallest pieces of the sentence. B. children who adopt an analytic style are extremely frequent, while children who adopt a holistic style are quite common. C. children are equally successful at learning a grammar regardless of whether they adopt a holistic or analytic style. D. there are no individual differences in children's grammatical development.