Download Name: Date: ______ 1. A boy who consistently exhibits traditionally

Name: __________________________ Date: _____________
1. A boy who consistently exhibits traditionally masculine interests and behavior patterns
demonstrates the impact of:
A) gene complexes.
B) heritability.
C) the X chromosome.
D) gender-typing.
2. Compared to fraternal twins, identical twins are much more similar in:
A) extraversion.
B) emotional instability.
C) risk of divorce.
D) all of the above.
3. Studies indicate that ________ prefer more personal space than do ________.
A) North Americans; Latin Americans
B) the French; the British
C) Arabs; Scandinavians
D) women; men
4. Men judge women as especially attractive if they appear ________ and women judge
men as especially attractive if they appear ________.
A) mature; mature
B) youthful; youthful
C) mature; youthful
D) youthful; mature
5. Babies with an intense and highly reactive temperament tend to be:
A) intelligent and imaginative.
B) irritable and unpredictable.
C) fearless and assertive.
D) extraverted and cheerful.
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6. Ten-year-old Migdalia insists on wearing very feminine-looking clothes because she
wants to appear ladylike. This best illustrates the impact of:
A) natural selection.
B) personal space.
C) sexual orientation.
D) gender-typing.
7. Professor Assad suggested that a cautious attitude toward sexual encounters has proven
to be more reproductively advantageous to women than to men because the reproduction
process is more time-consuming for women than for men. This suggestion best
illustrates the logic of a(n) ________ theory of sexual behavior.
A) evolutionary
B) social learning
C) Freudian
D) gender schema
8. Adopted children raised in the same family are not especially likely to have similar
personality traits. This most clearly implies that we should be cautious about attributing
personality to:
A) genetic predispositions.
B) parental influences.
C) gender differences.
D) peer influences.
9. Female children have been observed to dress and play in ways more typical of males if
they were exposed to excess ________ during their prenatal development.
A) nucleotides
B) testosterone
C) endorphins
D) estrogen
10. Frans avoids talking with food in his mouth because other people think it is crude and
inappropriate. This best illustrates the impact of:
A) roles.
B) schemas.
C) stereotypes.
D) norms.
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11. Those who suggest that our choices today shape tomorrow's possibilities are
emphasizing the importance of:
A) behavior genetics.
B) human responsibility.
C) personal space.
D) memes.
12. Compared with Asian parents, North American parents today place ________ emphasis
on obedience and ________ emphasis on family loyalty.
A) more; less
B) less; more
C) more; more
D) less; less
13. Prenatal testosterone secretions exert one of their earliest influences on:
A) genes.
B) memes.
C) gender schemas.
D) brain organization.
14. For children from impoverished environments, stimulating educational experiences
during early childhood are most likely to:
A) facilitate the development of nucleotides.
B) decrease their emotional attachment to their own parents.
C) have no discernable effect on subsequent academic performance.
D) prevent the degeneration of activated connections between neurons.
15. In attracting potential mates, women are more likely than men to advertise their own
________, and men are more likely than women to advertise their own ________.
A) athletic skills; parenting skills
B) good looks; wealth
C) sexual experience; sexual inexperience
D) intelligence; nurturance
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