The Overall Effect of the Scientific Revolution on the Querelles

question 56

Multiple Choice

The overall effect of the Scientific Revolution on the querelles des femmes was to

• A)dispel traditional myths of female inferiority.
• B)increase the role of women in the child-bearing process.
• C)generate facts about differences between men and women that were used to prove male dominance.
• D)demonstrate that there was no inherent skeletal differences between the sexes.
• E)allow women to enroll in most of Europe's universities.

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Definitions:

Conservation Tasks

Cognitive tasks developed by Piaget to assess a child's ability to recognize that certain properties of objects, such as quantity or volume, can remain the same despite changes in the form or arrangement of the objects.

Piagetian Preoperational Stage

A developmental stage in early childhood (approximately aged 2-7 years) characterized by symbolic thinking, egocentrism, and a lack of logical operations, according to Piaget's theory.

Conservation

In cognitive development, the understanding that an object's or substance's quantity remains the same despite changes in its shape or form.

Appearance-Reality

A cognitive development concept referring to the ability to differentiate between what something appears to be and what it actually is.