A Six-Month Follow-Up of Children Who Received Active Intervention in Teaching

question 107

Multiple Choice

A six-month follow-up of children who received active intervention in teaching them to challenge peer sexist comments showed that girls were more likely to

• A) confront boy peers who made comments than their girl peers.
• B) use physical force against a peer who made a sexist remark than girls who had not received active intervention.
• C) attain a gender-stereotype flexibility that extended beyond behavior to their attitudes.
• D) fail to confront peers who made sexist remarks.

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Definitions:

Offspring

The children or young born to a person, animal, or plant.

Maturation

Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.

Education

The process of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits through various means.

Accommodation

In cognitive psychology, the process of modifying existing cognitive schemas, perceptions, and understandings to incorporate new information.