The text reports a study in which female college students interacted with a 6-month-old infant who was either a boy or a girl, and who was dressed as either a boy or a girl
(For example, sometimes a boy was dressed as a boy, sometimes he was dressed as a girl.) Results demonstrate the importance of which of the following factors in the development of gender identity?
a. genetic forces, especially those coded on the X and Y chromosomes
b. brain development, which proceeds either in a "male" or "female" pattern
c. socialization
d. androgyny
c
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a. maintain information in sensory registers b. move information from sensory registers to short term memory c. maintain information in short term memory d. move information from short term to long term memory
Organogenesis is
A) the process by which an embryo's sex organs (uterus, ovaries, penis, testes) are sufficiently formed to allow sex determination. B) the way the placenta, amnion, and umbilical cord begin to function. C) when the germinal stage ends and the next stage of prenatal development begins. D) the process by which the basic structures of the embryo's organs, organ systems, and body parts are completed.