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

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

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

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

3. 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

4. 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

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. While considerable research suggests that human’s exhibit relatively poor reasoning ability what reasons have been given to be critical of this research?

   A. Rationality is not absolute
   B. Experiments lack ecological validity
   C. Satisficing responses are rational responses
   D. People have limited time and data available
   E. All of the above

7. Select the TWO correct statements from those below with regard to psychological research:
   1.You can fully understand the result of an IQ test without knowing anything about intelligence testing and standard scores.
   2. if two things are correlated this signifies that one is the cause of the other.
   3. A good knowledge of psychological research methods allows you to avoid making the mistakes that journalists politicians and many others make because they lack the necessary conceptual understanding.
   4. In most countries, in order to become a psychologist, you will be required to conduct a piece of psychological research.

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

8. After living together for a year, Surriya and Fahim have decided to marry. Research on premarital cohabitation most strongly suggests that:

   A. their cohabitation will not influence the success of their marriage
   B. but their marriage will have higher-than-average probability of ending in divorce
   C. they have more positive attitudes toward the institution of marriage than the average couple
   D. most of their college friends and acquaintances have viewed their cohabitation negatively

9. Research on avoidance learning suggests that a fear response is acquired through_________conditioning: the avoidance response is maintained as a result of______conditioning.

   A. classical; operant
   B. operant; classical
   C. classical; classical
   D. operant; operant

10. Cross-cultural research in judgments of body size suggests that Americans tend to rate the ideal body______than they do in other countries.

    A. Father
    B. Skinner
    C. Taller
    D. Shorter