Which of the Following Statements Is True

question 99

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true?

• A) Federal legislation encourages gender-based discrimination.
• B) Affirmative action programs are designed to prevent minority groups from exploiting race-based opportunities.
• C) Wage gaps between women, on the one hand, and white males, on the other hand, have fallen since the 1950s.
• D) Wage gaps between males and females have widened since 1980.

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Definitions:

Aggression

Actions aimed at causing pain or frightening other individuals.

Deindividuation

A concept in social psychology that describes how people in groups can lose their sense of individual identity, often leading to uncharacteristic behaviors.

Transactive Memory

A mechanism through which groups collectively encode, store, and retrieve knowledge, enabling them to remember more together than alone.

Groups

Groups consist of two or more individuals interacting and working together towards common goals or sharing common interests.