M12: Culture, Gender, and Other Environmental Influences

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

10; 50

Because of cataracts, a neighbor was deprived of visual experiences during early childhood. Last year, her vision was restored by surgery but she is having difficulty in dealing with the visual world. This is probably because:

brain cells normally devoted to vision died or were diverted to other uses.

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

brain changes that greatly improve dexterity.

Dr. Donaldson is a physician. His annual salary is approximately $215,000, which is very nearly average for a male physician. His colleague Dr. Yan is female; she earns the average salary for a female physician. Dr. Yan's salary is approximately:

$155,000

A local high school is running an experiment with a colony of infant rats. Half of the infant rats are isolated in barren cages and the other half live together in an enriched environment with lots of rat toys and exercise equipment. What would the expected outcome be at the end of the school year?

The rats in the enriched environment will have significantly larger cerebral cortexes.

Early Head Start has built off of Rosenzweig's research on rats, to provide a(n) _____ environment for preschool children living in poverty.

enriched

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

The term _____ refers to the socially influenced characteristics by which people define men and women.

gender

In everyday interactions, men are more likely to state their opinions, and women to offer support. However, women tend to become more assertive, and men more empathetic:

in middle age.

Which of these is a component of culture that is unique to the human species?

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 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

Juan is a Puerto Rican boy who currently lives in Manhattan with his mother who speaks very little English. Juan attends school with bilingual peers and English-speaking teachers. How well will he speak English?

the same as his peers