PSYC 1101 module 12

Compared to males, females are at ___ risk for developing eating disorders

10

Roughly speaking, the proportion of medical students who are women has increased from ___ percent to ____ percent over the past 50 years

10; 50

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 with the researcher choose?

A group of adult males

Recently, there was a horrible story about a 14-year old girl who was kept in isolation by her parents and was not exposed to any type of language. Now that she is out of isolation, what is the MOST likely outcome for her language development?

It is unlikely she will be able to master any language.

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 mothers fulfilling a set of expectations called a gender:

Role

Alec is a male. His genetic sex is:

XY

Brad has noticed that the girls he has gone out with still expect him to pick up the check even though they may have asked him out in the first place. These expectations are called:

gender roles

the acquisition of a traditional masculine or feminine role

gender typing

Pamela is a 15-year-old white teen who lives in the suburbs. She is likely to have her _____ influence her clothing selection and her _____ influence her college choice.

peers; parents

In the brain, the massive loss of unused neural connections is known as:

pruning

Many Americans, because of their limited exposure to other cultures, experience ____ when they visit a non-English-speaking country

Culture shock

Liz's sister and her husband want their four-year-old daughter to learn a new language and would like to start immediately. What advice would she give?

Early childhood is the best time to learn a language

Some psychologists have explained gender differences in aggression by arguing that because females are more likely to suffer bodily injury and a physical confrontation, they tend to opt for relational aggression. This statement is most closely consistent with the ____ perspective in psychology.

Evolutionary

In a study of aggression, a group of college students are given an experimental task intended to be purposefully frustrating. Then, the participants are given a task that forces them to administer fake electric shocks to another participant. Given what we know about gender differences in aggression, what should the research expect.?

Men will administer more painful shocks

How much credit can an average parent take for his or her child's success?

Rather little; achievements of children who received adequate but not stellar parenting are their own doing

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