Which of the following children most likely receives more direct training in gender roles?
A) Carole, age 4
B) Cindy, age 8
C) Jan, age 12
D) Marcia, age 16
A
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Simon showed grammatical mastery for the rules of American Sign Language, even though his teachers (his parents and their friends) did not. This lends support for the idea that
a. there is no sensitive period for learning language. b. ASL cannot be taught to children after the age of 9. c. the tendency to acquire language is inborn. d. a child can learn grammatically incorrect ASL, even if the parents model correct usage.
According to research on self-efficacy by Holzberger, Philipp, & Kunter, 2013, which of the following statements is true about how self-efficacy affects academic performance?
a. In high-achieving schools, policies and regulations are implemented strictly to enforce discipline. c. Levels of self-efficacy of classroom teachers and ratings of the teachers by students mutually affect each other. b. Students in the East German collectivist culture scored higher in self-efficacy than those in the West German individualist culture. d. In low-achieving schools, teachers tend to cultivate self-efficacy among students by giving them achievable goals.
Which of the following is NOT a frequent kind of error in eyewitness identification?
A. Implying that the criminal is definitely one of the stimulus persons B. Creating no real demand to make a choice C. Encouraging a looser recognition threshold in the eyewitness D. Leaking the detective's hunch
An advantage of cross-sectional over longitudinal studies is that they
A) allow a more direct test of development. B) permit both descriptive and experimental methods. C) can be completed in a relatively short period time. D) cover a wider range of ages.