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What term refers to the biological dimension of being male or female?
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Sex
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What term refers to the sociocultural dimension of being male or female?
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Gender
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What term refers to the social expectations of how we should act, think, and feel as females and males?
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Gender role
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Research by Robert Udry found that rising androgen levels are related to boys' increased
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Sexual activity.
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According to Udry, what factor most strongly influences girls' sexual activity?
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The type of friends they have
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What theoretical orientation within the field of psychology would state that the sexes having different behaviors regarding reproduction is the key that formed the different adaptive problems of males and females?
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Evolutionary
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Evolutionary psychologist David Buss argues that women and men differ psychologically
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In those domains in which they've historically faced different adaptive problems
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Which theory emphasizes gender role acquisition as a product of modeling and reinforcement?
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Social cognitive
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According to Maccoby's research, in middle and late childhood children show a clear preference for
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Being with same-sex peers.
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A cognitive structure that organizes the world in terms of males and females is called
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A gender schema.
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On average, males grow to be __________ taller than females.
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10 percent
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Which of the following statements about brain differences between males and females is FALSE?
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Parts of males' corpus callosum are larger than those of females
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In a classic review of gender differences in 1974, Maccoby and Jacklin concluded that males have better math and visuospatial abilities and females have better verbal abilities. In 1987, Maccoby revised her conclusion, stating that gender differences
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In verbal ability had disappeared, but that math and visuospatial differences still existed.
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Which of the following is a consistent gender difference?
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Boys are more physically aggressive than girls
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Fifteen-year-old Ryan is in a public speaking class, which he very much enjoys. According to Tannen, why might this be?
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Boys tend to enjoy report talk
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