How Does Maternal Employment Outside of the Home Affect Children

question 105

Multiple Choice

How does maternal employment outside of the home affect children?

• A)Children are not properly socialized for the adult roles they will occupy.
• B)Children are not able to develop a secure attachment to their parents.
• C)Children tend to perform poorly academically.
• D)Children of working mothers engage in less gender stereotyping.

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Definitions:

Downward Counterfactual

Thinking about how a situation could have been worse, often leading to feelings of relief or contentment.

Upward Counterfactual

An imagined alternative in which the outcome is better than what actually happened.

Misinformation Effect

The phenomenon where people's memories of an event can be influenced by incorrect information presented after the event, leading to false recollections.

Priming

The process by which exposure to a stimulus in the environment increases the salience of a schema.