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Read the scenario below and answer the question that follows. Max plays football. One day, Maxine asks to play football. Max tells her that she can’t play because she is a girl. Maxine instead watches Max and his friends play football. Max’s attitude toward females playing football is most likely to have been influenced by which of the following factors?

A
genetic factors
B
biological factors
C
social factors
D
cognitive factors
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Everyone experiences a period of __________ during puberty.

A
little change
B
emotional and mental stability
C
reduced height and weight
D
rapid change
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Successful resolution of the intimacy versus isolation stage of adulthood should result in __________.

A
apathy
B
openness
C
manipulation
D
loneliness
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Recent research indicates that personality development in adulthood does not occur in the stages that Erik Erikson suggested.

A
T
B
F
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Each society can have only one culture operating within it at a time. Please select the best answer from the choices provided

A
T
B
F
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Individuals will generally have an easier time establishing a positive ethnic identity if they are from an ethnic group that has much in common with the dominant culture.

A
T
B
F
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According to Marcia, every person will move through the four identity statuses in a predictable progression.

A
T
B
F
8

Life experiences sometimes propel an individual who is in a state of achievement to experience moratorium again.

A
T
B
F
9

Gender roles dictate a society’s view on applying makeup.

A
T
B
F
10

Emerging adults are typically financially independent from their parents. Please select the best answer from the choices provided

A
T
B
F
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In a high context culture, one is very likely to see lots of indicators explicitly expressing the proper and expected behaviors.

A
T
B
F
12

Some individuals have difficulty accepting cultures other than their own.

A
T
B
F
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With the onset of puberty, boys and girls are able to __________.

A
have fun with their siblings
B
listen more effectively
C
reproduce
D
better control their emotions
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One frequent sign of gender inequality in the United States is that women do not ___________.

A
enjoy the same voting rights as men
B
earn as much as men in similar occupations
C
receive admission to college as much as men
D
have equal power in most relationships
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Which of the following statements would best express cultural relativism?

A
“I don’t understand how they could deal with that gross food.”
B
“This is making my stomach upset just by watching.”
C
“I wonder why they decided to make food out of worm paste.”
D
“Eating worms can't be nutritious.”
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In most cultures, the difference between the majority viewpoint and the minority viewpoint is that the majority group is made to feel __________ and the minority group is made to feel __________.

A
divergent . . . normal
B
equal . . . superior
C
superior . . . equal
D
normal . . . divergent
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Which hormones are released in girls during puberty?

A
testosterone and estrogen
B
testosterone and progesterone
C
ingesterone and estrogen
D
estrogen and progesterone
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The value put on timeliness in the United States is actually a cultural universal in every culture.

A
T
B
F
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What event is considered the physical start of adolescence in females?

A
menarche
B
puberty
C
spermarche
D
estrogen
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Which of the following statements about cultural variations is true?

A
Individuals living in a culture express that culture in predictable and identical ways.
B
Individuals living in a culture share no characteristics with those from different cultures.
C
Individuals living in a culture are experiencing a culture unchanged from the one of the generation before them.
D
Individuals living in a culture tend to adapt to cultures and then adapt cultures to suit themselves.

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