Learning gender-typed behavior is particularly easy for children when

A) they are exposed to adults other than their parents.
B) they have siblings.
C) parents set up gender-differentiated environments (e.g., bedrooms) .
D) their parents are divorced.

Eight-year-old Marquita has spent a great deal of time learning basic addition facts.When she solves a complex addition problem in school,she pulls these facts out of memory.Marquita is using a ____________ strategy to help her solve addition problems.

A) retrieval
B) reversible
C) production
D) counting on

Aboriginal children outperform white Australian children on spatial memory tasks.

The sequence of words as they are actually spoken or written is called the ____ of language.

A) surface structure
B) situational grammar
C) deep structure
D) transformational grammar

What is communication?

Which of the following approaches to personality assessment involves asking people to give an account of and answer questions about their behavior and feelings in various situations?

A) Behavioral assessment procedures
B) Projective techniques
C) Experience sampling procedures
D) Self-report personality tests

Unlike other types of research, a cross-sequential design allows researchers to _______.

A) combine longitudinal and cross-sectional research strategies
B) look for gender differences
C) reduce experimenter bias
D) only include cross-sectional strategies within the design

According to researchers Margaret Baltes and Laura Carstensen, successful aging involves _______.

A) letting go and accepting one's place in the sweep of history
B) emotionally detaching oneself from people and situations
C) reshaping one's life to seek emotional fulfillment
D) doing as little as possible

Hal is experiencing a state of cognitive dissonance, which of the following scenarios will not help to reduce it?

A) A change in behavior.
B) A change in attitude.
C) A change in the beliefs.
D) A change in consequences.

According to self-determination theory,which of the following is NOT a basic human need?

A) autonomy
B) competence
C) symbolic immortality
D) relatedness