Mufiwaa is an elementary teacher who likes to use anecdotes or examples. To illustrate gender boy/girl differences in school work, Mufiwaa should
a. compare two children who perform at a middle level.
b. compare children at the extreme top or bottom of the grade distribution.
c. give an easy assignment so that children get high scores.
d. compare groups; individual comparisons among children are wrong because gender differences appear among groups.
Question 2How do most infants respond when they confront a looming object?
a. By blinking their eyes
b. By pushing away from it
c. By hugging the object and talking to it
d. By looking plaintively to a parent for assistance
Question 3Generally, with respect to various traits, gender differences between boys and girls are
a. large and becoming stronger each year.
b. small and unlikely to characterize the behavior of any particular individual.
c. small and seen mostly at the distributions' middles.
d. small because of society's androgynous push.
Question 4Quarty knows that a quarter is exactly the same size regardless of whether you look at it from far away or from up close. Quarty understands
a. looming.
b. size constancy.
c. interposition.
d. kinetic cues.
Question 5Gender researchers commonly deal with group averages, which implies that
a. individual characteristics may vary.
b. boys generally have stronger traits than girls.
c. girls' high compliance makes their traits rigid.
d. gender segregation must be opposed.
Question 6When a child reacts to an object's real size, rather than to the size of the retinal image, then ____ is evident.
a. stereopsis
b. intermodal perception
c. the visual cliff
d. size constancy
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