PSYC-2400

Question 1

Feminine stereotype

Answer 1

Expressiveness

Question 2

Latina women

Answer 2

Have traditionally faced an ideal of femininity that glorified motherhood, subservience, and long-suffering endurance.

Question 3

Peck and Chodorow disagree with Freud on:

Answer 3

Girls encounter more difficulties than boys in forming a proper gender identification.

Question 4

“Females are superior to males on verbal tasks”

Answer 4

Alpha bias

Question 5

Bias in formulating a research question

Answer 5

Maternal deprivation and paternal work patterns.

Question 6

“Achievement” defined in terms of promotions at work

Answer 6

Androcengric norms

Question 7

Transsexualism

Answer 7

Unknown cause.

Question 8

Testosterone

Answer 8

Delinquency, drug use and winning the lottery.

Question 9

Selection bias

Answer 9

Participants were self-selected for motivation and interest.

Question 10

Factors which produce small performance differences in males and females on cognitive tasks

Answer 10

Motivation, self-confidence, gender-role socialization.

Question 11

Menarche

Answer 11

First onset of menstruation.

Question 12

Couvade syndrome

Answer 12

Physical symptoms developed for emotional reasons by expectant fathers.

Question 13

Mid-life crisis

Answer 13

Loss of future

Question 14

There is no differences between male and female performance on tests of general intelligence

Answer 14

IQ tests designed to eliminate differences between males and females.

Question 15

First eight weeks of fetal development

Answer 15

Genitalia are identical but can still develop into male or female genitalia.

Question 16

Children learn gender roles through external rewards and punishments, mature and internal rewards and punishments

Answer 16

Social cognitive Theory.

Question 17

P

Answer 17

The probability of findings being an accident is less than 5%, and is therefore statistically significant.

Question 18

Schema

Answer 18

Interpret information by relating it to something you already believe is true, ignore information that does not conform.

Question 19

Narrative approach

Answer 19

Interviewed subject gives information, interviewer gives interpretation, records subjects reaction to interpretation.

Question 20

Interpersonal behaviour circle

Answer 20

Hostile - loving
Active | passive
Masculine
Androgynous
Feminine

Question 21

Sexual orientation: nature or nurture

Answer 21

Exposure to certain hormones during early development, not significantly higher. Likely genetic and social. Sexual orientation not all or nothing.

Question 22

Menopause

Answer 22

Can be frightened into believing it is bad, but women who have experienced it feel good about it.

Question 23

All data on sex differences is

Answer 23

Correlational data

Question 24

Small difference in mean scores on male/female characteristics

Answer 24

Large difference at the extremes of the characteristic or behaviour.

Question 25

Observer bias

Answer 25

Exaggeration of small differences and selective perception based on existing cognitive categories

Question 26

Female orgasm

Answer 26

Has greater variation in intensity and duration.

Question 27

Gender roles contribute to gender differences in health patterns

Answer 27

Women are more expressive and value intimacy, gender roles differ in risk taking.

Question 28

Gender differences in depression

Answer 28

First become noticeable in adolescence, show in general that women are more likely than men to experience serious depressions.

Question 29

Eating disorders

Answer 29

90% women

Question 30

Behaviour therapy vs cognitive behaviour therapy

Answer 30

Very similar, thoughts are focus, behaviours and emotions result of thoughts.

Question 31

Refractory period

Answer 31

Amount of time between resolution phase and being stimulated again in men.

Question 32

Agoraphobia

Answer 32

Psychological disorder, inability to feel safe outside comfort zone. More common in women.

Question 33

Surrogate-therapist team

Answer 33

Becoming sexually comfortable with another person.

Question 34

Gender stereotyping of physique on tv

Answer 34

Has been shown to make viewers less satisfied with their own physique, compared to nonsexist ads.

Question 35

Boys friendships provide

Answer 35

Support of defiance of authority and assertion of independence.

Question 36

Developing a sense of identity

Answer 36

A sense of self in relation to others and a sense of separateness and individual purpose.

Question 37

Male bonding

Answer 37

Males report more same sex friendships than women.

Question 38

Loneliness

Answer 38

Internal attributations for loneliness made by males, loneliness as more related to a lack of social risk taking for males.

Question 39

Male batterers

Answer 39

Three different types

Question 40

Women achievement motivation

Answer 40

Achievement arousing instruction involve social skills

Question 41

Personal resources

Answer 41

Leave influencer dependant on others

Question 42

Men in female professions

Answer 42

Sexual orientation questioned, promoted to senior positions.

Question 43

Men treat women protectively, argue they both contribute equally

Answer 43

Benevolent sexism

Question 44

Participation of women in professions traditionally dominated by men

Answer 44

Nearly half of all law students are now women.

Question 45

Women violent towards spouses

Answer 45

Are being treated violently by those spouses.

Question 46

Racial salience

Answer 46

One of the four dimensions of racial identity. At any given time, identify with their race more of less.

Question 47

Reactance

Answer 47

Person enjoys freedoms, believes those freedoms will be taken away. Men positions of power, women require subtle manipulation.

Question 48

Women’s fear of success

Answer 48

Horner theorized successful females outside the home unfeminine. In fact, more likely fear is caused by stereotypical innapropriateness of the situation, not necessarily fear of success.