Freud's theory implies that it is important for gender development that the child
a. continue in the Oedipus/Electra complex beyond age six.
b. not experience a timing-of-puberty effect.
c. at age five, have a same-sex adult living at home.
d. practice to improve his or her own visual/spatial abilities.
Question 2How can operant conditioning research on infants inform us about infant memory?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 3For Freud, resolving the Electra or Oedipus complex leads the six-year-old child to
a. seek mutilation of his or her genitals.
b. fantasize about an ideal world lacking any biased gender-role stereotypes.
c. actively reject the essentialist bias.
d. identify with the same-sex parent.
Question 4How is an infant's perception influenced by her or his culture and cultural traditions? Give evidence to support your examples.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 5In Freud's theory, ELECTRA COMPLEX is to OEDIPUS COMPLEX as ____ is to ____.
a. GENDER INTENSIFICATION :: GENDER SEGREGATION
b. POVERTY :: WEALTH
c. TEACHER :: STUDENT
d. GIRL :: BOY
Question 6Describe a research study that exposes infants to incongruity in intermodal perception.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 7In East Africa, legends abound about the ratel (honey badger), a fiercely combative predator that attacks its prey's genitals. Freud would claim that stories about honey badgers are especially fearful to boys who
a. presently experience the Oedipus complex.
b. suffer from testicular feminization syndrome.
c. have parents who accept psychological androgyny.
d. worry about self-fulfilling prophecies.
Question 8Research indicates that very young infants (zero to two months) have a number of preferences with regard to characteristics of visual stimuli; list at least four such characteristics.
What will be an ideal response?
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