Jean Piaget showed children two identical beakers filled with the same amount of water. After the children agreed that both beakers held the same amount of water, Piaget poured the water from one beaker into a taller, narrower beaker and then asked them about the amounts of water in each beaker. Children in which stage would be unable to distinguish the fact that the beakers held the same amount of water?
a. Sensory operational stage
b. Preoperational stage
c. Concrete operational stage
d. Formal operational stage
Question 2The __________ feminist approach explains women's deviance and crime as a rational response to the gender discrimination that women experience in families and the workplace.
a. radical
b. liberal
c. Marxist (socialist)
d. conservative
Question 3A system of tracing descent through both the mother's and father's sides of the family is referred to as bilateral descent.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 4According to Jean Piaget, in the _____ stage (age two to seven), children are limited in their ability to use logic to solve problems or to realize that physical objects may change in shape or appearance while still retaining their physical properties.
a. sensorimotor b. preoperational
c. concrete operational d. formal operational
Question 5Although there is no single feminist perspective on deviance and crime, three schools of thought have emerged, including the__________________________
_.
a. liberal feminist approach
b. ultrafeminist approach
c. conservative feminist approach
d. Durkheimian feminist approach
Question 6Polyandry is very rare; when it does occur, it is typically found in societies where men greatly outnumber women because of high rates of female infanticide or where marriages are arranged between two brothers and one woman.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 7According to psychologist Jean Piaget, toward the end of the second year of life, children comprehend _____; that is, they start to realize that objects continue to exist even when the items are placed out of their sight.
a. objectivity b. object permanence
c. object interactions d. objective insight
Question 8During the mid-1970s, advocates of __________ theory predicted that women's crime rates would increase significantly as a result of the women's liberation movement.
a. emancipation
b. functionalist
c. critical
d. symbolic interaction
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