What is one criticism that has been levied against popular gender identity assessments, such as
Bem's Sex Role Inventory?
A) Ratings are often correlated with social desirability, and therefore, biased.
B) They cannot be administered to young children.
C) They fail to take into account the concept of androgyny.
D) They often do not include items pertaining to psychological or interpersonal
characteristics.
B
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The following question comes from the Mad About Youchapter discussing the research of Buss et. al. In
human mating the relationship between males and females is best characterized as (a) competitive (b) cooperative (c) intellectual (d) spiritual
According to the text, which of these statements is false?
(a) Being choosy about who you mate with should increase fitness if you're male. (b) For a man, there is no guarantee that his sexual partner's offspring carry his genes. (c) The claim that some characteristic or behavior has a genetic basis does not mean that that characteristic or behavior is totally unaffected by environmental factors. (d) Over time, those females who carried genes that predisposed them toward being more jealous of emotional infidelity than sexual infidelity passed along more of their genes to subsequent generations.