chapter 4- true or false

Question 1

true or false-Parents are generally accurate in their perceptions
of sex differences in their infants’ physical abilities?

Answer 1

False: Parents tend to overestimate the physical abilities
of boys, when, in fact, there are no sex differences in
infants’ physical competencies.

Question 2

true or false-By calling attention to the sex binary in the
classroom (e.g., referring to “girls and boys” rather than
“children”), teachers can increase children’s gender
stereotyping?

Answer 2

True: Simply labeling children by their sex
category can increase children’s endorsement of sex
stereotypes, as well as their favoritism for their own sex
over other sexes.

Question 3

true or false-Children who display cross-sex play preferences in
childhood (e.g., girls who prefer rough-and-tumble play
and boys who prefer dolls) are more likely than other
children to identify as gay or lesbian later in life?

Answer 3

True:
Children who display cross-sex play preferences are
substantially more likely to identify as gay or lesbian in
adolescence and adulthood.

Question 4

true or false- In general, children’s levels of conflict with parents
tend to be highest in early childhood and then decline by
adolescence

Answer 4

False: Children’s levels of conflict with
parents tend to be highest during early and middle
adolescence.

Question 5

true or false-As people enter middle and late adulthood, gender
becomes a less central part of the self?

Answer 5

False: Counter to
the degendering hypothesis, there is no evidence that gender becomes less central to the self as people age.