chapter 8- true or false

Question 1

true or false-Gendered word choice can influence people’s
thoughts and perceptions?

Answer 1

True: Consistent with the Whorfian hypothesis, word choice can influence thoughts by making gender categories more or less salient, by reinforcing gender stereotypes, and by influencing perceptions of blame associated with perpetrators and victims of violence.

Question 2

true or false-On average, women talk more than men?

Answer 2

False: Men are slightly more talkative than women, but the effect size is small and differs depending on contextual
factors.

Question 3

true or false-Sex differences in language use emerge consistently, regardless of variables such as culture,
race, social status, and education level?

Answer 3

False: Language use differs greatly by culture, race, social status, and
education level, and these variables interact with sex in complex ways to influence whether and when sex
differences emerge.

Question 4

true or false-People can identify an individual’s sexual orientation, with accuracy above chance levels, based
solely on the individual’s gait (manner of walking)?

Answer 4

True:People can identify sexual orientation based on gait with
above-chance-level accuracy, and gay people tend to be more accurate at this than heterosexual people.

Question 5

true or false-Compared with women, men tend to be better at
identifying and managing their own emotions and the
emotions of others?

Answer 5

False: While men estimate their
emotional intelligence as higher than women do, women score higher on measures of emotional intelligence.