Maccoby and Jacklin's 1974 Review of Gender Differences in Verbal

question 17

Multiple Choice

Maccoby and Jacklin's 1974 review of gender differences in verbal abilities concluded that ______.

• A)females outperform males on a variety of verbal tasks from the age of 5 on
• B)females outperform males on a variety of verbal tasks from the age of 11 on
• C)females exhibit larger vocabularies than males from the age of 8 on
• D)the female advantage in verbal abilities ends in high school

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