Which Model for the Relationship Between Gender-Type and Psychological Adjustment

question 17

Multiple Choice

Which model for the relationship between gender-type and psychological adjustment has received the least support from research?

• A) Congruence model
• B) Androgyny model
• C) Masculinity model
• D) Classical conditioning model

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Definitions:

Confirmatory Factor Analysis

A statistical technique used to verify the factor structure of a set of observed variables.

Experiment

A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact through controlled observation.

Physical Mechanisms

Processes or functions within a physical system that bring about a particular outcome or effect.

Empirical Reasoning

That process of thinking that proceeds from premises describing interpersonally verifiable experiences in order to support or to disconfirm hypotheses, which, in turn, are intended to explain and predict phenomena. Empirical reasoning is fundamentally inductive, self-corrective, and open to scrutiny and independent verification by the entire scientific community.