Assignment 3 Flashcards
Research shows that parents and young adults emphasize different criteria for determining when adolescents become adults. For example, parents might place more emphasis on ______ whereas young adults are more likely to emphasize ______.
avoiding juvenile misbehavior; getting married
Susan Basow (2010) notes in “Gender in the Classroom” that while academic achievement goals have increased for girls in the early, middle and high school years, boys (particularly those with African-American and Hispanic heritage) are not achieving at the same rate (in terms of grades, graduation rates and college/univeristy attendance). Which of the below can account for this?
Conditions of poverty, due to lower socioeconomic status, appear to have a greater impact on boys’ ability to achieve in academics than it does on girls of similar background.
A woman asking her gay male co-worker to oversee decorations for the office party by saying “you’re probably good at it,” is an example of ______.
a micro-aggression
According to research on the allies of disadvantaged groups, which of the following is FALSE regarding a vocal, male proponent of gender equality.
He will be more likely to be perceived as inauthentic.
Which of the following describes how having siblings influences gender development?
Children with older siblings of the same gender display the most gender typical behavior.
Fred, a young boy, attends a 5th grade co-educational school. How might Fred’s teachers react to him in class (generally speaking) that would differ from how they might react to Susan (one of Fred’s female classmates).
Fred would be reprimanded more for giving a “silly” answer than Susan would.
Which of the following is TRUE of sex differences in love and romance?
Evidence is mixed and likely indicative of greater similarity than difference between men and women.
Alice picks a book for storytime in the classroom to be read aloud to her and her classmates. Which of the story plots below is Alice’s book most likely to be about?
A young girl forms a babysitting club.
Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies find what evidence against degendering theory (i.e., that as you get older you place less emphasis on the importance of gender conventions as a component of your identity)?
Across all age groups, women rate themselves higher in communal traits and men rate themselves higher in agentic traits.
Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding findings related to the experiences of children who later identify as transgender?
Even at a young age, they had a clear and consistent sense of themselves as belonging to a gender group that differed from their assigned sex.
What is the difference between someone who is gender schematic versus someone who is gender aschematic?
Someone who is gender schematic is more likely to use gender as a way of understanding and organizing the world.
Which of the following is an example of a benevolent attitude toward men?
beliefs that men ought to be cared for domestically by women
Which of the following statements about gender differences in social networks is FALSE.
Men offer more responsive and attentive support to their network members than women do
Which of the following is NOT true of shared power and decision-making in relationships in Western cultures?
Objective equality is more influential than perceived fairness in decision-making power.
According to Susan Basow (2010) in “Gender in the Classroom”, which of the following statements is TRUE regarding how traditional gendered messages (conveyed by teacher attitudes, curricular materials, and school structure) have changed in early education since the 1970s.
Gendered messages have changed for girls, but not for boys.
