Males have been found to differ slightly from females in three well-documented areas of mental abilities. Which of the following is not one of these?

Related Mcqs:

1. Research suggests that males exhibit____________than females and that females have a________than males.

   A. less cerebral specialization, smaller corpus callosum
   B. less cerebral specialization; larger corpus callosum
   C. more cerebral specialization; smaller corpus callosum
   D. more cerebral specialization; larger corpus callosum

2. The barn owl’s right ear opens slightly upward while its left ear opens slightly downward. This asymmetry is most useful for enabling the owl to detect the________of a sound.

   A. loudness
   B. amplitude
   C. wavelength
   D. location

3. What refers to biological difference between males and females present at birth?

   A. gender identity
   B. gender role
   C. sex
   D. genotype

4. A theory that children develop a cognitive framework reflecting the beliefs of their society concerning characteristics and roles of males and females, and affecting the processing of new social information is known as:

   A. Gender identity theory
   B. Gender schema theory
   C. Gender constancy
   D. sex role theory

5. What can we say about aggression in males and females?

   A. Women may learn different aggressive strategies from those used by man who are the physically stronger sex
   B. Aggression in males may be expressed directly (e.g. fighting) but aggression in females may be expressed indirectly (e.g. gossiping about someone)
   C. If relational victimization of girls and if aggression is seen as means of hurting someone than women may not differ so much from men in terms of using aggression
   D. All of the above

6. Intra- sexual homicide (young men kill young men more than females kill females) would offer support for:

   A. biological basis of aggression
   B. adaptively basis of aggression
   C. homicidal protest
   D. media causes violence hypothesis

7. Konrad Lorenz documented a range of what kind of activity in the animal kingdom?

   A. Prosocial behavior
   B. Instinctual
   C. Aggression
   D. Imprinting

8. Presence of a characteristic red belly in male three-spined sticklike back that elicits aggression in other territorial males is a:

   A. Taxis
   B. Sign stimulus
   C. Kinesis
   D. None of these

9. The authoritative source of definitions for mental disorders, that it is widely accepted and used among mental health professionals is which of the following?

   A. American Psychiatric Association
   B. American Psychological Association
   C. DSM-5
   D. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

10. The theory of color vision based on the idea that we possess three distinct receptor areas for the three primary colors of light is the ________________?

    A. primary color theory
    B. signal detection theory
    C. opponent process theory
    D. trichromatic theory