Your Text Reports a Study Examining the Test Scores of 15-Year-Olds

question 154

Multiple Choice

Your text reports a study examining the test scores of 15-year-olds in 41 countries. In all the countries, girls outscored boys in reading. In most of the countries, boys outscored girls in math. How might one interpret this finding with respect to biological and cultural explanations of the gender differences in achievement?

• A) It supports the biological account rather than the cultural explanation.
• B) It contradicts both the biological and cultural explanations.
• C) It supports the cultural rather than the biological explanations.
• D) It supports both the biological and cultural accounts.

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Definitions:

Brain

The organ located in the head of an organism that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body.

Auditory Nerve

A nerve in the inner ear that transmits sound information from the cochlea to the brain.

Neurons

Specialized cells in the nervous system that transmit information via electrical and chemical signals.

Temporal Lobe

A region of the cerebral cortex responsible for processing auditory information and encoding memory.