Identify a true statement about gendering cognition when measuring math ability and achievement.

A) Even today, girls' performances on math tests show little improvement despite being given better educational opportunities than boys.
B) Most of the time, girls outperform boys on math tests in high school.
C) Today, college-bound high school girls are just as likely as college-bound boys to take four years of math.
D) Most of the time, boys' performances on standardized math tests are better than girls' performances in the elementary school years.

Research most clearly suggests that personality traits are more strongly influenced by

A) genes than by home environment.
B) home environment than by genes.
C) genes than by peers.
D) home environment than by peers.

One infant attachment style identified by Ainsworth,Blehar,Waters,and Wall (1978) involved infants who appeared as though they were not concerned with the absence or presence of their mothers.The name given to this style was ______.

A) secure attachment style, confident
B) secure attachment style, robust
C) insecure attachment style, avoidant
D) insecure attachment style, anxious/ambivalent

According to the textbook, some of the most influential people in history, including political leaders, ________, and artists have been shown to experience benefits from their mood disorders.

A) high school teachers
B) university professors
C) computer technologists
D) religious figures

Dr.Zelke surveys 50 university students to discover the relationship between textbook price and ratings of readability.Dr.Zelke finds that for these two variables,the correlation coefficient is -0.70.What does this indicate

A)  More expensive books tend to receive lower readability ratings than less expensive books. 
B)  Increasing the price of a book will lead people to think that it is more readable. 
C)  Less expensive books tend to receive lower readability ratings than more expensive books. 
D)  There is no relationship between book price and ratings of readability.

Aram's mother has been helping him to walk by holding his hands and supporting him.Aram's legs are strong enough to hold him up,and he's able to move his legs in a coordinated way as long as his mother supports him.What else does Aram need in order to walk on his own?

A) muscle strength
B) brain maturation
C) practice
D) fine motor skills

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a sex-linked abnormality.

According to Freud,defense mechanisms are methods of reducing

A) anger.
B) fear.
C) anxiety.
D) lust.

In one study, research participants watched a video screen on which one group of players, dressed in white shirts, were tossing a ball back and forth. Mixed-in with these white-shirted players, and clearly visible on the same video screen, was a group of black-shirted players, also tossing around a ball. When participants were asked to focus on the white-shirted players only, __________.

A) they could not do so; they kept getting distracted by what the black-shirted players were doing
B) they quickly shifted their attention back and forth between the black-shirted and the white-shirted players
C) they ended up seeing something that never really happened: white-shirted players tossing the ball with black-shirted players
D) they failed even to notice when someone in a black gorilla suit strolled through the middle of the scene

A factor that differentiates a meta-analysis from a narrative literature review is that a meta-analysis:

A) focuses on effect size.
B) is more subjective.
C) summarizes what has been found.
D) is less accurate.