Sex-role sterotypes and androgyny

Question 1

Define androgyny

Answer 1

A combination of male and female characteristics

Question 2

Define gender

Answer 2

A person’s sense of maleness or femaleness, a psychological/social construct

Question 3

Define sex

Answer 3

Being genetically male (XY) or female (XX)

Question 4

Define sex-role stereotypes

Answer 4

A set of shared expectations within a social group about what men and women should do and think

Question 5

How many characteristics were on the BSRI?

Answer 5

60 (20-m, 20-f, 20-n)

Question 6

On the BSRI, if someone had high masculine, low feminine they were…

Answer 6

masculine

Question 7

On the BSRI, if someone had low masculine, high feminine they were…

Answer 7

feminine

Question 8

On the BSRI, if someone had high masculine, high feminine they were…

Answer 8

androgynous

Question 9

On the BSRI, if someone had low masculine, low feminine they were…

Answer 9

undifferentiated

Question 10

Gender schema theory (GST) suggests that the 1)_________ between an androygnous and a traditional sex-role stereotyped person is one of 2)________ style.

Answer 10

1) difference

2) cognitive

Question 11

EVAL: Support for parental influence -

Smith and Lloyd (1978) showed that mothers treat boy and girl babies differently, in line with…

Answer 11

sex role stereotypes

Question 12

EVAL: Support for parental influence -
Smith and Lloyd (1978) found that if a mother thought she was playing with a boy, she would 1)_________ more motor activity and offer 2)______ appropriate toys

Answer 12

1) encourage

2) gender

Question 13

EVAL: Support for parental influence -
Smith and Lloyd (1978) found that mothers responded to the 1)________ sex of the infant, in line with 2)_______ expectations

Answer 13

1) perceived

2) gender

Question 14

EVAL: Support for the relationship between androgyny and psychological health -
Research has found a positive 1)__________ between androgyny and psychological health, as 2)____ predicted

Answer 14

1) correlation

2) Bem

Question 15

EVAL: Support for the relationship between androgyny and psychological health -
Prakash et al (2010) tested 100 1)________ females in 2)_____ on masculinity and feminitiy and a range of outcome measures related to 3)____________ health.

Answer 15

1) married
2) India
3) psychological

Question 16

EVAL: Support for the relationship between androgyny and psychological health -
Prakash et al (2010) found that females with high masucline scores had 1)______ levels of depression

Answer 16

1) lower

Question 17

EVAL: Support for the relationship between androgyny and psychological health -
The research of 1)_______ et al (2010) supports the view that androgyny has a 2)_______________ effect, because those with masculinity 3)___ femininity were better off in terms of their health

Answer 17

1) Prakash
2) psychoprotective
3) and

Question 18

EVAL: Reliability of the BSRI -

The BSRI has high test-retest 1)________, over a four-week period. And correlations range from 2)___________ (Bem, 1981)

Answer 18

1) reliability

2) 0.76 - 0.94

Question 19

EVAL: Validity of the BSRI -

The link between androgyny and better psychological health could be explained in terms of an intervening variable…

Answer 19

self-esteem

Question 20

EVAL: Validity of the BSRI -
Those who score higher in both masculine and feminine traits in the BSRI tend to have 1)_______ levels of 2)_____ ________. This suggests that androgyny doesn’t explain 3) ______________ healthiness at all

Answer 20

1) higher
2) self esteem
3) psychological

Question 21

EVAL: Validity of the BSRI -
The 1)________ validity of the BSRI can also be questioned as the adjectives used in the BSRI were selected back in the 1)_____ and people’s attitudes have changed since then, so it is questionable whether it is still 2)_____________

Answer 21

1) temporal
2) 1970s
3) appropriate

Question 22

EVAL: Validity of the BSRI -
Hoffman and 1)_________ (2001) asked a group of almost 400 undergraduates to rate items on the BSRI as masculine or feminine and only two terms were endoresed as masculine and feminine - the adjectives 2)_______________________. All other terms failed to reach a 3)__)% agreement level. Showing the BSRI is no longer relevant. Lacks 4) _______ _________

Answer 22

1) Borders
2) masculine and feminine
3) 75
4) temporal validity