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1. A person's abilities and traits are largely determined by social expectations that exist for women and men.
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2. Whether prehistoric males evolved to be hunters and protectors or not has little bearing on how men act in today's world.
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3. Gender differences in behavior are mainly due to how people have been treated by their parents, teachers, and peers.
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4. Men tend to be more decisive and women more submissive, traits largely determined by genetic factors.
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5. Children choice of same-sex playmates, beginning in preschool, limits their opportunities for engaging in non-gendered or opposite-gender activities.
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6. Men provide financially for their families in most societies because gender discrimination and cultural expectations limit opportunities for women.
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7. Cognitive strengths that individual people exhibit cannot be traced back to genetic differences between men and women.
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8. Parents today raise their sons and daughter similarly, fostering curiosity and encouraging cooperation regardless of the child's gender.
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10. While men are praised for being assertive and decisive, women with these personality traits are often criticized.
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11. Enrolling boys and girls in single-sex primary and secondary schools takes advantage of biologically based differences in learning.
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12. New mothers returning to work report being criticized for too little involvement at home, while new fathers report being criticized for too little involvement at work.
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13. Brain distinctions account for differences in how well men and women understand verbal material or remember details about previous conversations.
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14. Girls, compared to boys, are much more likely to be hard-wired to fear spiders and snakes.
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15. The distribution of men and women into different social roles provides many traditional, gender-typed role models for children today..
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16. Women, for 1000s of years, have easily expressed and interpreted emotional expressions because natural selection needed women to foster the formation of social groups.
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17. Because the left side of the brain develops more slowly in boys than girls, preschool girls have better language skills than do preschool boys.
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18. Differential treatment by parents, teachers, and peers enables children to extract rules regarding gender-appropriate behavior once they've categorized themselves as boys or girls.
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19. Being pregnant, with all the physiological changes that take place, ensures that women will be caring, nurturing mothers.
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20. To show that you are still paying attention, skip this item.
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21. Gender differences in behavior are not learned, nor are they influenced by early childhood experiences.
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22. Males and females share about 60% of their genetic material leading to gender differences in behavior that are evident soon after birth.
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23. Men tend to be less helpful and nurturing than women are because society values those traits in women, but not in men.
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24. While men and women complete tests assessing math or verbal skills, brain imaging measures show nearly identical activity.
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25. Gender differences in behavior today were shaped by the separate reproductive demands faced by prehistoric men and women.
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26. Social approval and praise lead most men and women to engage in and enjoy similar activities.
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27. Men are reluctant to choose historically female occupations as those jobs carry lower social status, less power, and lower compensation compared to traditional male occupations.
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28. Many male behavioral traits and characteristics are due to someone having a Y chromosome.
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29. Parents talk more to daughters than to sons, but they engage in more rough-and-tumble play with sons.
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30. Variations in how easily people solve problems requiring analytical, mathematical, or logical skills are not due to innate or inborn differencs.
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31. Little girls play with toy dishes rather than toy trucks because the play preferences of girls & boys are shaped by the world they grow up in.
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32. Exposure to prenatal hormones, particularly differences in testosterone, produce gender differences in cognitive skills & personality traits.
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33. There are many male math professors but few male literature professors because of innate differences between men and women.
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34. Children's own ideas or expectations lead them to see greater gender differentiation than what actually exists in their world.
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35. The encouragement or exclusion of men and women into different careers affects people's professional identification & sense of belonging.
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36. For this item, select "Somewhat Disagree."
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37. The characteristics of most people are basically either masculine or feminine, and there is really little they can do to change that.
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38. Despite having excellent verbal and quantitative skills, women without successful role models doubt they can handle the educational or job requirements needed to succeed in traditional male occupations.
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39. Children, especially boys, are praised and rewarded for engaging in same-sex activites, but obtain disapproval if not punishment for engaging in opposite-sex activities.
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40. Differences in how well men and women read maps or give directions are largely due to innate or inborn sex differences.
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41. Parents today are more more likely to encourage autonomy and independence in their sons than in their daughters.
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42. Masculine and feminine standards of behavior are routinely portrayed in the media.
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43. Gender differences in behavior or personality, with no inherent biological basis, frequently change from one generation to the next.
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44. Because men have a dominant left brain, they have historically held the majority of jobs in STEM fields (science, engineering, math, etc.).
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45. Men commit the majority of violent crimes in most countries because male role models are typically aggressive and violent.
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46. Whether someone is assertive, competitive, aggressive, or passive is in their DNA.
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47. Choose "Somewhat Agree" for this item.
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48. People typically choose college majors and make career decisions based on activities they find enjoyable, rewarding, or personally meaningful rather than on what most men or women choose.
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49. Young girls are more obedient than are young boys because boys, right from the start, seem indifferent to other's approval.
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50. In the last 50 years or so, the parental role models children see at home are rarely engaged in traditional masculine or feminine activities.
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51. Someone's biology, things like their anatomy or hormones, have little influence over how they behave.
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52. Women and men are fundamentally good at different things and these differences are hard to change.
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53. Because children pay more attention to same-gender than opposite-gender role models, even children of egalitarian parents form traditional gender-role expectations.
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54. Economic, political, and social factors had little historical impact on how men and women behaved in previous generations.
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55. Women excel as occupations requiring social interaction and cooperation because they have a more developed social brain than do men.
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56. Men who excel in academic fields such as science or engineering were born with the necessary cognitive attributes.
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58. Women have better balance and fine motor skills, while men excel at tasks requiring strength or force, because of fixed biological sex differences.
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59. Men are better than women at visuo-spatial tasks due to different childhood experiences including the type and frequency of video games played.
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60. Parents of boys must use strict supervision and frequent prohibitions because engaging in dangerous, risky-taking behaviors is deeply ingrained in boys right from the start.
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61. Women prefer jobs working with people rather than things because women evolved to nurture children and families.
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62. Once children realize that they are a boy or a girl, they selectively choose gender-typed activities and friends even without parental encouragement.
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63. Sex differences learning styles, and in the use of logic or intuition, are hard-wired in the human brain.
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64. Differences in the abilities and traits of men & women can be traced back to the culture in which they were raised.
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65. When the behavior of women & men differ, differences are due to the kinds of opportunities they've had and the cultural barriers they've faced.
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