Deck 5: Genetics, Personality, Gender, and Power

Question 1

Personality is connected to how we argue with one another and also to the outcomes of arguments.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Gender stereotyping refers to a broader cultural insistence that a person behave in ways based on gender.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

According to your text, there are those researchers who claim that it is a rare case within which the woman performs gender by keeping house, and preparing meals as a way to establish femininity.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Gupta (mentioned in your text) suggest that women (most women) Matching Questions.

Question 5

Which of the following does NOT guide and define who you are, according to your text?

A) your gender
B) your biological self
C) your personality
D) All of the above define who you are

Question 6

According the Hardwired to Connect, hormones affect the human bonding process in that they

A) seem to control the "attraction strategies" humans use in the mate selection process.
B) play a part in your same-and opposite-sexed friendship choices, and the quality of friendships you create.
C) help trigger parental care, which in turn helps to trigger the release of more attachment hormones.

Question 7

According the Hardwired to Connect, nurturing environments affect gene transcription and the development of brain circuitry. What evidence do they provide to support this claim?

A) Well-mothered rat pups are predisposed at the celluar leve to pass on good nurturing to the next generation.
B) Bowlby's attachment theory and Ainsworth's research suggest that good mothering changes the oxytocin and vasopressin levels in the brain.
C) Harlow's study with monkeys showed that baby monkeys nurtured by a "rag" mother were just as likely to be better parents to their offspring as monkeys nurtured by "live" mothers.

Question 8

"Children are channeled to gendered play activities and toy." According to Oakley, cited in your text, this is the result of …

A) peer group interactions.
B) genetic predispositions.
C) socialization of parents.

Question 9

In terms of socialization of children men are ___________ players in socializing children to
Become gendered, according to your text.

A) major
B) minor (women/mothers clear are more important)
C) major players (but only if in an intact family)

Question 10

What is the essential foundation for the emergence of conscience and moral meaning in humans, according to Hardwired to Connect?

A) The levels of oxytocin and vasopressin in the brain.
B) The "born-to-attachness" characteristics of humans.
C) The "gender-connectedness" between the child and its parent(s).

Question 11

In terms of power in marriage, your text concludes that

A) women now have equal power compared to men, but it is in different areas of the relationship than where men have power.
B) we seem to be moving significantly toward increased power for women in relationships.
C) despite the feminist movement, almost no progress has been made in terms of power for women in marriages.

Question 12

According to Brody in your text, the Big Five personality markers are:

A) Openness, compassion, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
B) Openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
C) Openness, compassion, extroversion, amiability, neuroticism
D) Openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, amiability, neuroticism

Question 13

From the OCEAN acronym for personality markers, openness is:

A) Openness to empathetic role taking.
B) Degree of emotionality.
C) Willingness to seek new experiences.
D) Organization in daily life.
E) Degree of sociability.

Question 14

From the OCEAN acronym for personality markers, conscientiousness is:

A) Openness to empathetic role taking.
B) Degree of emotionality.
C) Willingness to seek new experiences.
D) Organization in daily life.
E) Degree of sociability.

Question 15

Which camp, in terms of the source of sex specific traits and their impact on family life, denies any essential or biologically based difference between men and women?

A) men and women are unique camp
B) androgynous impulse camp
C) equity model camp

Question 16

The policy implication suggesting that policy must allow, even encourage, sexes to be true to their natures, is from which "camp?"

A) men and women are unique camp
B) androgynous impulse camp
C) equity model camp

Question 17

"Egalitarian patterns of work, earning, and housework in marriages foster greater emotional intimacy and more emotion work on the part of husbands. They do so by creating marital role homogamy, and by eliminating patriarchal patterns of power and authority…. This is a description of the assumptions and propositions of which theoretical model discussed by Wilcox and Nock?

A) A companionate model
B) An equity model
C) An institutional model
D) A gender model

Question 18

"Wives who perceive housework arrangements as unfair are more likely to report lower levels of marital happiness. But wives who hold traditional gender attitudes expect less equality in the division of housework and less emotion work from their husbands. Consequently, traditional wives are less likely than their more progressive peers to view the division of household labor as unfair, or their husbands' emotion work as inadequate." This is a description of the assumptions and propositions of which theoretical model discussed by Wilcox and Nock?

A) A companionate model
B) An equity model
C) An institutional model
D) A gender model

Question 19

What guides the child's readiness to behave in response to parent wishes and attentiveness?

A) Clear gender role training and modeling by parents or surrogates.
B) Parents who are high in two of the Big 5 personality characteristics: Agreeableness and Openness.
C) Human connectedness seems to guide child readiness.

Question 20

Which statement reflects most people's thinking about gender?

A) We are always aware of treating our children in gendered ways
B) We are comfortable with ambiguity where gender is concerned
C) We treat our children in ways that we view as appropriate for their sex
D) How we socialize children is a process independent of bio-social factors

Question 21

When we talk about an individual's personality we are referring to:

A) the attributes or distinctive characteristics of the person
B) a collection of physical attributes, genetics, and feelings
C) a hormonally influenced group of behaviors
D) biosocial characteristics that manifest themselves under stress

Question 22

According to Brody, the Big Five personality markers are:

A) Openness, compassion, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
B) Openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
C) Openness conscientiousness, extroversion, amiability, neuroticism
D) Openness, compassion, extroversion, amiability, neuroticism

Question 23

Research by Botwin et al. (1997) on married couples and the Big Five personality factors found that:

A) neurotic women were usually less satisfied in marriage
B) neurotic men were usually less satisfied in marriage
C) men experienced less sexual satisfaction when women were introverts
D) marital satisfaction was tied to agreeableness, emotional stability, and openness.

Question 24

Principle 5.5 states that we have power in a relationship when the other person needs something we have. Develop a real life example that explains how this principle works in family life.

Question 25

In short, what is 'power-dependency'? How does it work in family life? Provide real-life examples to illustrate your ideas.

Question 26

Briefly describe why you think personality, gender, and power were combined into one chapter in your text. In other words, what is the connection among these important ideas?