Deck 13: A: Gender and Development

Question 1

Girls are more flexible about gender stereotypes than boys.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Boys do better than girls on tasks that involve fine-motor coordination.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Gender differences in brain maturation may lead to gender differences in verbal ability.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Boys are more likely than girls to use relational aggression.

Question 5

Children's understanding of gender stereotypes decreases throughout the elementary-school years.

Question 6

Adolescents and young adults from middle-class homes have more flexible ideas about gender than individuals from lower-class homes.

Question 7

Helping an adult is encouraged more in daughters than in sons.

Question 8

Silverman & Choi (2006) found that, in a map task, girls tended to use landmarks more, while boys tended to use distance and direction more.

Question 9

Boys and girls differ in their use of spatial strategies.

Question 10

According to social cognitive theorists, children learn gender roles through reinforcement and observational learning.

Question 11

Younger children are more likely to ignore stereotypes when judging other children.

Question 12

Boys do not out-perform girls on standardized tests of math achievement in the elementary-school years or in high school and college.

Question 13

Instrumental traits are associated with women.

Question 14

Contrary to popular opinion, boys are no more physically aggressive than girls.

Question 15

Gender stereotypes are more extreme in America than in many other countries.

Question 16

The right hemisphere of the brain may be more specialized for spatial processing in females than in males.

Question 17

Girls tend to be healthier than boys.

Question 18

Expressive traits are associated with men.

Question 19

Mental rotation is the ability to imagine how an object will look after it has been moved in space.

Question 20

Aggressive behaviour has been linked to androgens, hormones secreted by the testes.

Question 21

Children who watch a lot of television have more stereotyped views of males and females.

Question 22

Boys' interactions with each other are typically enabling.

Question 23

Androgynous persons are high on both instrumental and expressive traits.

Question 24

The benefits of androgyny are greater for boys than for girls.

Question 25

Mothers are more likely than fathers to treat sons and daughters differently.

Question 26

In general, teachers spend more time interacting with boys.

Question 27

In general, television portrays women and men in a very stereotyped manner.

Question 28

Children select same-sex playmates because they are pressured to do so by adults.

Question 29

According to gender-schema theories, children pay more attention to experiences and events that are gender-appropriate.

Question 30

The choice of same-sex playmates may occur, in part, because boys' competitive and rough play is aversive to girls.

Question 31

Parents who want to raise androgynous children should not base decisions about toys, activities, and chores on the child's sex.

Question 32

Androgynous children have lower self-esteem than children whose gender roles are highly stereotyped.

Question 33

Girls' interactions with each other are typically constricting.

Question 34

By three years of age, most children show a preference for sex-typed toys.