According to the research on how a stranger responds to infant girls and boys,
a. boys and girls act very differently; these different behaviors produce different responses from caregivers.
b. an infant's label, boy or girl, may influence people's judgments about that infant.
c. gender labels are more likely to influence adults' judgments of personality characteristics than their social interactions.
d. people treat boys and girls similarly until they are about 2 or 3 years old.
Question 2
Your textbook describes a study in which parents rated their newborn child on a variety of dimensions. The results showed that
a. parents of newborn girls rated their daughters as being somewhat more delicate, compared to parents of newborn boys.
b. on every tested dimension, there were very large differences between the ratings of daughters and the ratings of sons.
c. surprisingly, parents rated their daughters and their sons as being equally feminine.
d. parents actually rated their daughters and their sons as being similar on all the tested dimensions.
The U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) network.
Infant: 4 weeks to 1 year.
Helping a Stranger
Adolescent girls reach adult height sooner than boys because their bones grow more rapidity
Research Methods