Module 12: Culture, Gender, and Other Environmental Influences

Piano players who do drills when they are children to improve dexterity in their left hands experience:

brain changes that greatly improve dexterity.

If a child loses vision, his or her brain will respond by using the area previously devoted to vision for other abilities. This is an example of:

brain plasticity.

Laurie and Jim are visiting Laurie's brother and wife, who recently moved to Italy. During the first day of their visit, Laurie's brother and wife hosted a dinner party to introduce Jim and Laurie to their neighbors. When introduced, Jim extended his arm to shake the neighbors' hand and instead they reached over and kissed him on each cheek. This happened with each of the introductions during the evening. This type of greeting is an example of a:

norm

Neural tissue is always changing and reorganizing in response to experience, providing evidence of the brain's _____.

plasticity

Two generations ago, men in the United States were expected to initiate dates and women to select wedding gifts. This BEST illustrates aspects of gender _____.

roles

Gerald and Jennifer are having a playdate. Of the toys presented to them, Gerald shows a preference for the balls and blocks, while Jennifer shows a preference for the dolls and art activities. It is likely that Gerald and Jennifer are at LEAST age:

3

What percentage of sperm carries the X chromosome?

50 percent

A psychologist has a limited budget for research, so she needs to focus on a small sample of individuals who are most likely to develop alcohol use disorder and antisocial personality disorder. Given what we know about gender differences, which of these groups would the researcher choose?

a group of adult males

Though a mom begs and pleads, she has no success in coaxing her preschooler to eat broccoli. She might try to use peer influence by:

asking his day-care center to serve broccoli and seat him with classmates who like to eat it.

Early experiences influence how the brain develops by:

increasing neural connections.

Your neighbors have three children and both parents work. Without fail, whenever there is a sick child in the family, the expectation is that the mother will stay home to care for the child. The mother is fulfilling a set of expectations called a gender:

role

Brad has noticed that the girls he has gone out with still expect him to pay the bill when they go out even though they may have asked him out in the first place. These expectations are called gender:

roles

When 6-year-old Sara imitates her mother, carefully wrapping and setting out presents for the holiday celebration, she is praised and given holiday cookies. Sara's learning of gender-linked behaviors is BEST explained by _____ theory.

social learning

_____ represents the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions that are shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.

Culture

People with autism spectrum disorder have a tendency to be aloof, so that they keep a distance from others that feels emotionally manageable to them. In this case, aloofness is a(n) _____ trait.

evocative

An androgynous individual:

exhibits characteristics associated with both genders.