In the in Focus Box on Gender Differences in Responding

Multiple Choice

In the In Focus box on gender differences in responding to stress features, psychologist Shelley Taylor argues that men and women respond to stress with a fundamentally different behavioral pattern. What evidence does she cite to support her idea?

A) Female animals are more likely to take cover and tend offspring than fight or flee in response to a threat.
B) Male animals are more likely to take cover and tend offspring than flee in response to a threat.
C) Women are more likely to use emotion-focused coping strategies than men.
D) Female animals will fight to defend their offspring but not to defend themselves.