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:

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

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

3. 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

4. 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?

   A. verbal ability
   B. mathematical ability
   C. intelligence
   D. visual-spatial abilities

5. 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

6. When visual information out an object is perceived, which model of perceptual processing emphasizes on-going feedback between the higher centers of the brain(e.g., cognition) and the early stages of processing (e.g., sensory receptors)?

   A. Recurrent processing model
   B. Serial processing model
   C. Parallel processing model
   D. Selective adaptation model

7. Education as a process embodies all those forms of activities that fit an individual for social living and that help transmit customs, laws, religious beliefs, languages of social institutions from one_____to another:

   A. Generation
   B. Person
   C. View
   D. Situation

8. Research evidence suggests that violent people show deficits in which type of social information processing?

   A. Anger management
   B. Encoding social cues
   C. Deception
   D. Memory retrieval

9. Which of the following characteristics are contributors to job satisfaction, as identified in Hackman and Oldham’s (1976) influential job characteristics theory? 1: Variety 2: Recognition 3: Task identity 4: Task difficulty

   A. 1,2 & 3
   B. 1 & 2
   C. 2 & 3
   D. 3 & 4

10. The statistical method used to elicit information concerning the component parts of intelligence is known as __________________?

    A. factor analysis
    B. construct analysis
    C. Spearman’s g factor
    D. hypothesis testing