Assignment 2 Flashcards
More recent meta-analyses on relational aggression (e.g., social rejection; damaging another’s reputation) find what kind of gender differences for adolescents and adults, if any?
Small gender differences, but only with observational, peer report or teacher report data.
Suppose you know a man who endorses very rigid traditional beliefs about masculinity. How might you predict this to affect his behaviors relevant to seeking healthcare.
He will be especially likely to postpone seeking medical help.
The ______ is when the mother’s body treats the male fetus as a foreign invader and activates an immune response against it. At a certain point, the mother produces enough antibodies to prevent the fetal brain from developing in the male typical fashion, resulting in male homosexuality.
fraternal birth order effect
Imagine Linda and Bob both come into a doctor’s office complaining of stress, lack of appetite, and fatigue. Doctors diagnose Linda with depression and Bob with overwork. Which of the following phenomenon likely helps explain the different diagnoses despite identical symptoms.
implicit physician biases
Whether or not the outcomes predicted by objectification theory generalize to non-Western cultures depends upon which of the following?
whether non-Western media sexualize women to the same degree as Western media
Consider stereotypes that paint female speech as expressive and male speech as assertive. Overall, to what extent does the evidence support such sex differences in communication?
Differences in the stereotypical direction do sometimes emerge, but they are small and dependent upon context.
Pete has felt since he was young that his gender identity does not fit with his biological sex (XY male). As an adult he experiences intense shame and self-loathing regarding this (what would my family/friends think if they knew). He denies his true feelings and keeps them burried inside. Which of the following is Pete suffering from?
internalized transphobia
What best describes the similarities/differences between the love experienced by adult mates, and the love that infants form for their caregivers?
The same neurological circuits regulate both types of love relationships.
Women are more likely to suffer from various chronic pain conditions such as arthritis, neck or back pain, and headaches. This finding rules out which of the following explanations of the morbidity-mortality paradox (i.e., that women have higher rates of sickness while men have higher rates of death)?
Women over inflate their self-reported ill health
Researchers found that newspaper articles were likely to use the ______ voice when describing male-to-female partner violence, and the ______ voice when describing female-to-male partner violence.
passive (e.g., “She was beaten”); active (e.g., “She beat him”)
How have views toward sexuality changed since the mid-1800s?
It is now common to classify people into groups based on the sex of people they desire.
Based on research investigating mental health help seeking behavior among men, a man from which of the following backgrounds would you expect to be most likely to seek help for a mental illness?
Urban community
Which of the following trends likely contributed to changes in the gender longevity gap (i.e., that women tend to outlive men) over the past few decades?
men reducing how much they smoke
Minority stress theory would argue that transgender individuals will be more likely to engage in what kind of health related behaviors?
unhealthy coping behaviors, such as alcohol use
Which of the following theories depends on the assumption that occupying multiple social roles (e.g., spouse, parent, employee, church member) buffers an individual against distress?
the expansion hypothesis
