Modules 49-52 Gender, Adolescence, and Some Other Stuff

Gender is ________________.

• socially-constructed.

• based on your genes

The social expectations that guide men's and women's behavior are called ______________.

• gender roles

• social learning

• gender typing

• gender identity

We learn behaviors through observing and imitating AND through rewards and punishments. This is called _______________.

• social learning theory

• gender typing

• gender roles

• social connectedness

When rats were given more enriched environments, they

• had more developed brains.

• died sooner.

• became lazier.

• ratted out their homies.

Children are more likely to copy the accents of their ______________.

• parents

• peers

Adolescence begins at

• puberty.

• high school.

• Burger King.

• age 13.

Menarche refers to a

• girl's first period.

• a woman's last period.

• way of speaking.

• specific age of a woman.

The action of REDUCING synapses is called ______________.

• neurogenesis

• synaptic pruning

Lawrence Kohlberg studied ______________ development.

• moral

• cognitive

• psychosocial

• social

Someone at the preconventional stage is

• less than 9 yrs old.

• an adolescent or older.

• in early adolescence.