Allie is interested in fashion, and hopes to be a designer someday. She spends a lot of free time looking at fashion magazines for ideas. Allie may be susceptible to a sociocultural factor that contributes to the development of eating disorders in girls and women. This is __________
a. the decrease in body size ideal for women
b. peer pressure to conform to unhealthy eating behavior
c. the increase in economic pressure for acquiring food
d. the increase in the number of single parent homes
Ans: the decrease in body size ideal for women
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a. if the experimenter really believes in ESP, he or she is much more likely to interpret coincidence as cause-and-effect. b. ESP researchers have made no attempt to be objective or scientific. c. parapsychological skills are too consistent to be real. d. researchers have been unwilling to investigate psychic phenomena in laboratory settings.
People with gender __________ disorder feel that they were born into the body of the wrong sex and have a strong identification with the opposite gender
a. development b. identity c. establishment d. androgyny