Psychology and the man/women problems

Question 1

Sex - definition (bio)

Answer 1

Applied to a bio category that = assumed to be natural: involves things like chromosomes, hormones & sex organs

Question 2

Gender - definiton

Answer 2

Characteristics that a society or culture regards as masculine or feminine (sex typed beh)

Question 3

What does gender vary over?

Answer 3

• Cross culture
• History
  = not absolutley fixed = may be considered a social construct

Question 4

Binary People = ?

Answer 4

Transgenders
Intersex
Ppl who = dont or wont adopt one gender

Question 5

What is an example of how humans = split into 2 genders

Answer 5

toilet door signs

Question 6

What is an established gender norm?

Answer 6

Teachers believing boys = naughtier than girls

Question 7

What is abelief echoed by young children (Lloyd & Duveen, 1922)

Answer 7

Girls = commonly refer to boys’ naughtiness to suggest boys were monoplosing toys

Boys = retaliate by sterotyping girls as ‘sissies’

Question 8

Sandra L Bem (1993) said:
Throughout the history of ……(1) culture, three beliefs ab woman and men have prevailed: that they have fundamentally different ….(2) and …..(3) natures, that men are inherently the ……(4) or superior sex, and that both male-female diff and male dominance = ……(5)

Answer 8

1. Westerns
2. psychological
3. sexual
4. dominant
5. naturall

Question 9

Naomi Weisstein (1968/1993) said:
Psychology has constructed woman as:
‘……. ………’ (1),
lacking in a strong ……… (2) or ……… (3),
……..(4)
‘………‘(5) rather than intelligent
and suited to the ….. (6) and …… (7)

Answer 9

1. emotionally unstable
2. conscience
3. superego
4. weaker
5. intuitive
6. home
7. family

Question 10

Conceptualising Gender - trad view

Answer 10

scale - more fem = less masc
fem and msc = measured on one scale

Question 11

Conceptualising gender - critical view - bem 1993

Answer 11

Bem sex role inventory measures masc and fem sep on sep scales - can score high on both, low on both, high on one low on the other (vice versa) or somwhere in the middle

Question 12

What are the two types of feminisim

Answer 12

Minimiser & Maxismiser

Question 13

What is minimiser feminism

Answer 13

questions wheter any gender diff = meaningful
focus on equality
more liberal views

Question 14

What is maximiser feminism

Answer 14

More radical
Rejects that women should be judged acc to an implied male benchmark

Question 15

Masc in osych

Answer 15

Masc = more historically treated by psychologists as the default despite women being 51-52% of the pop
Many drug trials exculde women

Question 16

Measuring TAP - The F scale (Fascism Scale)

Answer 16

• Adorno et al (1950)
• Scale from disagree strongly to agree strongly

Question 17

What is IAT?

Answer 17

A method using reaction times, rather than a self report - to measure uncon bias