All of the Following Are True Regarding Gender Differences in Verbal

question 13

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true regarding gender differences in verbal skills except that:

• A) infant and toddler girls talk at an earlier age and have larger vocabularies.
• B) gender differences in verbal ability appear later than other cognitive gender differences.
• C) girls are less likely than boys to display reading problems.
• D) adolescent girls outperform boys in reading, writing and speech production.

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