Developmentalists have found that social learning takes place through:

A) early childhood.
B) middle childhood.
C) adolescence.
D) life.

Long-term semantic memories seem to be located primarily in the ________.

A) temporal lobes and frontal lobes
B) prefrontal cortex and the brain stem
C) hippocampus and the thalamus
D) parietal lobes and the prefrontal cortex

Females who have experienced stress related to father absence,insecure attachment,or a mother's smoking during pregnancy experience ________ a few months earlier than average.

A) gender identity
B) androgyny
C) gender typing
D) menarche

In the 1970s, a person who was attracted to people of the same sex and was conflicted about this sexual preference would have been diagnosed with

A) homosexual gender dysphoria.
B) gender dysphoria.
C) heterosexual gender dysphoria.
D) egodystonic homosexuality.
E) gender identity disorder.

Suppose that Anabelle often gets lonely and seeks to stave off this loneliness by forming "relationships" with her favorite celebrities (e.g., reading about their lives in Us magazine). Research suggests that this strategy will probably be at least somewhat helpful.

Card players who attribute their wins to their own skill and their losses to bad luck best illustrate

A) secure self-esteem.
B) reciprocal determinism.
C) the spotlight effect.
D) self-serving bias.