College students faced with unsolvable problems eventually give up and make only half hearted attempts to solve new problems, even when the new problems can be solved easily. This behavior is probably due to ______

According to learning theorists, children's ideas about gender roles develop from __________

a) hormonal influences on brain development. b) children being reinforced or punished for various sex role behaviors. c) maturation of brain development which results in hormonal influences on brain development and the ability to understand gender stability. d) a series of stages in acquiring the concept of gender.

According to the main study discussed in the article Boldface Letters about children's attributions for their own behavior, in the first letter the two groups:

(a) were different--performance group put more information into the letter (b) were different--performance group used fewer strategies (c) were different--the performance group asked fewer questions (d) were not different in terms of the measures taken