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Allison is a very sweet, intelligent, amicable person. However, Joe hears from her ex-boyfriend that she is hard to get along with and very snobby. According to research on the self-fulfilling prophecy, Joe acts in a(n)
 
  a. neutral way toward Allison, even though he has heard bad things about her.
  b. unfriendly way toward Allison. This in turn causes Allison to act unfriendly toward Joe, and Joe to believe that her ex-boyfriend was right about her.
  c. unfriendly way toward Allison, yet he finds her to be very amicable and decides that her ex-boyfriend must not know her very well.
  d. friendly way toward Allison even though he has heard bad things about her, and finds her to be much friendlier than her ex-boyfriend said she was.

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Based on information from the authors of your text, what is one possible explanation as to why girls and boys perform about the same in math in elementary school, but a gender gap appears around puberty?
 
  a. estrogen impairs cognition
  b. testosterone impairs cognition
  c. self-fulfilling prophecies seem to occur
  d. peer pressure become more important to girls



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SAUXC

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C




luminitza

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Excellent


Kedrick2014

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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