Chapter 5

Question 1

Students preferer what gender of prof, even if they have no knowledge of which is which?

Answer 1

Male professors

Question 2

Women stereotypes usually consist of what

Answer 2

Smiley, expressive, concerned on how they look. good for teaching and nurses

Question 3

Male stereotypes consist of

Answer 3

messy, hardworking, sport orientated

Question 4

What are the 4 primary components of gender stereotypes

Answer 4

a) Trait dimensions
b) role behaviours
c) Occupations
d) Physical appearance

Question 5

What gender as a groups is better with communion ?

Answer 5

Women

Question 6

What does communion refer to?

Answer 6

Trait of being warm, connected, generous and kind

Question 7

What does Agency refer too?

Answer 7

Trait of facilitating individual success, status and leadership roles

Question 8

What gender as a group scored higher on agency scales?

Answer 8

Male

Question 9

What is the stereotype content model?

Answer 9

A theory proposing that stereotypes based on social groups can be viewed on communion and agency dimensions can be low or high on both aspects

Question 10

What is the women-are-wonderful effect?

Answer 10

Stereotypically female stereotypes are more favourable than male stereotypes.

Question 11

If a women has a high-status or leadership roles, how are they most likely viewed?

Answer 11

as bossy, hostile or manipulative

Question 12

Think manger-think male effect is

Answer 12

the idea that men and good leaders overlap much stronger than women and good manager does

Question 13

What is intersectionality?

Answer 13

A theory that states that cultural stereotypes in regards to gender and ethnicity are linked in a system of power from the bottom up and that the most powerful of group severs as the prototype for the whole culture

Question 14

what is a subgroup

Answer 14

when a man or women is viewed to belonging to a more complex group within a larger category

Question 15

Stereotypes for transgender (male to female) individual are

Answer 15

largely correlated with those of cisgender women

Question 16

Stereotypes for transgender (female to male) individuals

Answer 16

are more unisex then those of cisgender men

Question 17

Transgender women and men are often stereotyped as being what?

Answer 17

Confused and gay

Question 18

What is the sexual inversion theory?

Answer 18

it proposes that gay and lesbian individuals have the exterior appearance of one sex but internally have the characteristics of another

Question 19

Sterotypes of bisexual individuals tend to be more __________ then those of heterosexual gay or lesbian individuals

Answer 19

Negative because they’re known as very sexual, confused and indecisive

Question 20

Gender proscriptions are ?

Answer 20

the traits that men and women should not have

Question 21

What is the status incongruity hypothesis?

Answer 21

Explains that there are “rules” to the gender hierarchy that state men should be above women at all times across cultures or else it would make individuals feel uncomfortable

Question 22

What is a stereotype threat?

Answer 22

Anxiety that builds within a person when there is a negative stereotype in place against them

Question 23

How do gender sterotypes and the self-fulfilling prophecies work together?

Answer 23

Gender stereotypes may become true due to interpersonal processes such as thoughts prior to exams rather than biological factors

Question 24

Where does evolutionary psychology suggest stereotypes come from?

Answer 24

They come from and reflect the genetic differences between men and women

Question 25

What does the Social Role theory suggest?

Answer 25

That gender sterotypes come from society and their observations as to what occupations men and women should possess

Question 26

The biosocial constructionist theory has 2 parts, what are they?

Answer 26

1) Peoples stereotypes of women and men generally follow what they see in their daily lives
2) Society trains children to act a specific way and perform certain tasks from a young age so they are prepared for adult hood

Question 27

Researchers often depend on ___________ to differentiate between social reality and not beliefs

Answer 27

Sex differences

Question 28

Sex differences in cognitive areas are much ______ then what our stereotypes suggest

Answer 28

Larger

Question 29

What are the Big five personality dimensions?

Answer 29

Extraversion
Neuroticism
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Openness

Question 30

What difference was found in how much women spoke compared to men

Answer 30

There was no difference

Question 31

According to stereotypes across multiple domains study, research found that

Answer 31

gender stereotypes are quite accurate but does not completely resolve the accuracy problem

Question 32

Are gender stereotypes consistent between cultures?

Answer 32

Yes, when looking at the broad concepts but not when u look closer

Question 33

More individualistic the nation resulted in what?

Answer 33

The more that the individualistic trait was related to men

Question 34

The more collectivistic the nation resulted in what?

Answer 34

The more that the collectivistic trait was related to men

Question 35

Flamboyant and feminine gays are stereotyped as ____ in communion and ____ in agency.

Answer 35

High in communion and low in agency

Question 36

Hypermasculine and activist gays are stereotyped as _____ in communion and ______ in agency

Answer 36

Low in communion and high in agency

Question 37

Gender prescriptions

Answer 37

Are the traits men and women are supposed to have

Question 38

Direction accuracy

Answer 38

Which group has more of a particular trait quality then the other?

Question 39

Discrepancy accuracy

Answer 39

How close to the reality is the research? Or how far?