According to the cognitive-developmental view of gender typing proposed by Lawrence Kohlberg, children:
A) use gender as one way of organizing their perceptions of the world.
B) form concepts about gender and then fit their behavior to the concepts.
C) can distinguish whether they are boys or girls at the age of one year.
D) can discriminate anatomic gender differences at the age of 18 months.
Question 2Osteoporosis is characterized by:
A) toughening of tissues.
B) inflammation of joints.
C) infection of bone marrow.
D) brittleness of bones.
Question 3A difference between preschool boys and preschool girls is that preschool boys:
A) engage in less rough-and-tumble play than girls.
B) show somewhat greater verbal ability than girls.
C) show somewhat greater visual-spatial ability than girls.
D) tend to show more empathy and to report more fears than girls.
Question 4Elinor is a 78-year-old woman experiencing difficulty in hearing voices and sounds. Her hearing abilities were fine until her fifties, and have been steadily declining since then. Elinor is most likely suffering from _____.
A) presbyopia
B) retinitis
C) presbycusis
D) glaucoma
Question 5Preschool boys:
A) show somewhat lesser visual-spatial ability than girls.
B) show somewhat greater verbal ability than girls.
C) tend to show more empathy and to report more fears than girls.
D) engage in more rough-and-tumble play and are more aggressive than girls.
Question 6Benjamin is an 80-year-old man whose acuteness of hearing has dramatically decreased over the last decade. This indicates that he has most likely developed:
A) presbyopia.
B) retinitis.
C) glaucoma.
D) presbycusis.
Question 7Preschool girls:
A) engage in more rough-and-tumble play and are more aggressive than boys.
B) tend to show more empathy and report more fears than boys.
C) show somewhat lesser verbal ability than boys.
D) show somewhat greater visual-spatial ability than boys.
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