AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Research suggests that women are more skilled than men at
A
avoiding emotional uncertainty.
B
preventing emotions from distorting reasoning.
C
detecting other people’s emotions.
D
delaying emotional gratification in pursuit of long-term goals.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Binet and Simon created a test designed to predict which children would succeed and which ones would have difficulty in school. Binet and Simon conceptualized the idea of mental age, the cognitive abilities that should correspond to a particular age.

Detailed explanation-2: -*Validity-the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.

Detailed explanation-3: -On which of the following tasks are males most likely to outperform females? mentally rotating three-dimensional objects.

Detailed explanation-4: -A test is standardized when all the students taking the test have to respond to the same set of carefully selected questions. This allows people who look at the results to make comparisons among groups of students.

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