Which of These Situations Is Not an Example of a Child

question 32

Multiple Choice

Which of these situations is not an example of a child learning gender differences by imitation?

• A) A young boy learns to use the toilet by watching his father.
• B) A young girl learns to cook by watching her mother.
• C) Girls in a group of children pay more attention to the behavior of other girls than to that of boys.
• D) Children watching videos pay more attention to same-sex characters than to opposite-sex characters.
• E) Children who speak languages that differentiate words by sex (French, Hebrew) are more conscious of their own sex than those who speak languages that do not specify sex (Finnish, English).

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Definitions:

Secularisation

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Collectivism-Individualism Contrast

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Etic-Emic Distinction

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