Question

Sweden and Iceland exhibit little of the gender gap in mathematical abilities found in Turkey and Korea. This best illustrates that mental abilities are:______.
a) polygenetic.
b) extrinsic motivators.
c) distributed in a bell-shaped pattern.
d) ethnically determined.
e) socially influenced.

Answer 1

Answer:

e) socially influenced.

Explanation:

Social influence: In psychology, the term social influence is described as a phenomenon through which a person's behavioral change leads to alter or change the other person's behavior whether unintentionally or intentionally as a result of the different ways in which the person who's behavior has been changed or altered perceives himself or herself in response to the influencer or the person through which his or her behavior has been changed, society, or any other person.

In the question above, the given statement best illustrates that mental abilities are socially influenced.