The period during development in which a young person experiences physical changes that lead to ...

The period during development in which a young person experiences physical changes that lead to sexual maturity is known as
 
  a. puberty.
  b. adolescence.
  c. dysmenorrhea.
  d. the premenstrual syndrome.

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Question 2

According to the research on children's stereotypes,
 
  a. younger children know just as much as older children about our culture's traditional gender stereotypes, but the younger children have more flexible stereotypes.
  b. older children know more than younger children about our culture's gender stereotypes, but the older children have more flexible stereotypes.
  c. the current research shows that children are much less aware of gender stereotypes than the children who grew up in the 1960s.
  d. younger children have more flexible gender stereotypes than older children.CHAPTER 4Adolescence

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Question 3

Your textbook described a study in which 8- to 10-year old children rated photos of women, men, girls, and boys on several personality characteristics. The study demonstrated that
 
  a. only the boys tended to make different judgments about the male photos and the female photos.
  b. children in this age range had not yet developed clear-cut stereotypes about gender and personality.
  c. children actually judged the male photos as weaker than the female photos.
  d. children in this age bracket have stereotypes about gender and personality.

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Question 4

Research on children's stereotypes about gender shows that
 
  a. kindergartners tend to believe that males are more aggressive than females.
  b. kindergartners actually tend to believe that females are stronger and more competent than males.
  c. children do not have different beliefs about boys and girls until they reach the age of 8.
  d. children under the age of 6 have very clear stereotypes about females, but their stereotypes about males are not well developed.

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Question 5

The research on children's ideas about occupations shows that
 
  a. occupational stereotypes are mostly confined to middle-class White children.
  b. most children under the age of 5 do not have clear-cut ideas about occupational stereotypes.
  c. girls frequently say that they would be angry with a typically masculine occupation, but boys frequently say that they would be extremely angry with a typically feminine occupation.
  d. although children are stereotyped about the occupations of other people, they do not tend to prefer gender-stereotyped occupations for themselves.

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Question 6

Suppose you are teaching 4-year-olds in a preschool program. The children in your class are likely to believe, with respect to occupations, that
 
  a. women can become anything they want to be, though men have more restricted occupational choices.
  b. women have more prestigious jobs than men.
  c. teachers tend to be women, and construction workers tend to be men.
  d. there is no relationship between occupation and gender.

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Question 7

You are playing with your 5-year-old nephew Matthew. According to the research on children's stereotypes about gender, Matthew is most likely to
 
  a. know which toys the boys are supposed to like, and choose gender-consistent activities himself.
  b. know which toys the boys are supposed to like, but show no gender preferences in his own play activities.
  c. be easily persuaded to play with toys considered appropriate for the other gender.
  d. choose gender-consistent play activities, but report little understanding of what boys are supposed to like.