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panfilo

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Suppose that a friend of yours has 3-year-old twins. He tells you that Sara's language is more advanced than Joe's, because she is a girl. Recalling the information on gender comparisons in verbal ability from your textbook, you reply that
 
  a. most research actually shows that boys are better in the early development of language.
  b. with some consistency, young boys have better mastery of vocabulary, whereas young girls are better at grammatical structure.
  c. no carefully conducted study has found any statistically significant gender differences in children's language.
  d. although occasional studies have demonstrated gender differences in children's language, many other studies do not.

Question 2

Researchers have studied gender comparisons on a variety of tasks that test memory. Which of the following memory tasks shows no gender difference?
 
  a. memory for events that happened in the past
  b. memory for abstract shapes
  c. memory for items that are stereotypically associated with females, such as items in grocery stores
  d. memory for faces of people from another ethnic group



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ladyjames123

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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

B




panfilo

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Reply 2 on: Jun 21, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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