Francisco refuses to wear the color yellow because he's convinced, "That color is for girls." Francisco has developed this idea from interacting with his sister whose favorite color is yellow. This example of Francisco's beliefs and expectations about the attributes associated with maleness and femaleness best describes which concept?

a. evolutionary differences
b. sexual identity
c. publicly constructed conceptions
d. gender schemas

Ans: d. gender schemas

Psychology

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The best predictor that infants will develop high levels of intellectual aptitude is their

A) readiness to crawl at an early age B) capacity for imitating adult facial expressions. C) tendency to quickly shift their gaze from a familiar to a novel picture. D) ability to discriminate their mother's voice from that of a female stranger.

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