Provide an account of gender role differences in terms of biological and cultural causes
What will be an ideal response?
The answer should focus on the role of gender specializations, especially reproduction
related specializations, during the evolutionary past. It should also describe the cultural factors
that shape gender stereotypes.
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Posner and Rothbart propose that the executive attention network is active when people need to inhibit an automatic response. On this kind of attention task, the portion of the brain that would be most active is
a. the parietal lobe. b. the temporal lobe. c. the occipital lobe. d. the frontal lobe.
Fluent aphasia, in which the victim has difficulty comprehending language but is still able to speak smoothly, is due to damage that includes ____
a. Broca's area b. Wernicke's area c. the prefrontal cortex d. the corpus callosum
Social skills training is designed to increase adaptive behaviors using:
a. modeling and reinforcement b. classical conditioning techniques c. aversion therapy d. systematic desensitization
All other things being equal, which of the following is likely to devote the most care to their grandchildren?
a. paternal grandfathers c. maternal grandfathers b. paternal grandmothers d. maternal grandmothers