Exam 15: Section 2: Gender Development

Research by Leaper and colleagues demonstrated that, among 7-year-olds, _____ were more frequent for girls than for boys, and _____ were more common among boys than among girls.

Effect size refers to the _____ of similarity and difference.

Which is the latest milestone reached by children?

Social identity theory would predict that the more time one spends with a group, the more one will:

Of these influences, which appears to be the initial source of gender segregation?

Changes in girls' performance on standardized tests of mathematics have been attributed to changes in:

Adrenarche occurs at approximately what age?

Which statement is NOT true of co-rumination?

Assertion refers to the tendency to:

Which is a true statement about adolescent males' and females' attitudes toward gender-stereotyped activities?

Gender differences in aggression:

Which is NOT a true statement about the sex typing of boys and girls?

When researchers asked adults to watch a video of two children whose gender they could not identify and then to rate the children's level of aggression, the adults who believed that _____ rated the children as least aggressive.

Which statement would be considered to be a gender-essentialist statement?

Some researchers who take a neuroscience approach to gender differences argue that those differences stem from different:

Which theory is NOT an example of a cognitive perspective on gender development?

Which theory does NOT account for children's early superior knowledge about gender-typed objects and behaviours over cross-gender-typed objects and behaviours?

By about _____ of age, infants/children are first able to distinguish females and males, usually on the basis of _____.

Which statement provides the BEST support for the social cognitive theory of gender differences?

Levels of which activity would MOST likely be positively associated with the level of androgens in the body?