Deck 1: Exploring Sex and Gender

Question 1

The Psychology of Women is considered interdisciplinary because:

A) Professors that teach the psychology of women come from different subfields of psychology
B) It is informed by research conducted in such fields as biology, sociology, anthropology, history, media studies, economics, education and linguistics
C) It insists on a complex interconnected science of psychology
D) It receives great attention from human rights committees and the feminist movement

Answer 1

It is informed by research conducted in such fields as biology, sociology, anthropology, history, media studies, economics, education and linguistics

Question 2

Chapter 1 implies that

A) psychology can not be considered a complete science if it ignores women's and girl's issues
B) sex refers to both biological and social differences
C) gender is determined purely by biology
D) estrogen and progesterone are uniquely female hormones, while androgens are hormones that belong exclusively to males

Answer 2

psychology can not be considered a complete science if it ignores women's and girl's issues

Question 3

After a lecture in the psychology of women, a friend comes up with a new explanation of why she was once refused employment. She is probably referring to:

A) Racism
B) Sexism
C) ethnocentrism
D) feminism

Answer 3

Sexism

Question 4

An example of sex is:

A) Mother
B) Teacher
C) Female
D) woman

Question 5

A feminist is a woman or man who:

A) discounts the contributions of men
B) overemphasizes the contributions of women
C) strives for justice and equal opportunities for all men and women
D) wants less power

Question 6

The cultural approach view explains the origin of gender stereotypes from

A) The perspective that children are socialized to act in accordance with their society's conventions
B) the position that ongoing structural and social role requirements shape our experience in society
C) the cultural injustices that surrounded women
D) religious and spiritual ideologies

Question 7

Stereotypes can be

A) Positive
B) Inaccurate
C) negative
D) all of the above

Question 8

Blatant sexism is different than subtle sexism in that blatant sexism

A) Is intentional, hidden, and frequently hostile
B) Is less apparent than covert sexism
C) occurs when women are treated in a transparently harmful and unequal way
D) is less visible to others as well as to ourselves

Question 9

Alia states: "the marriage institution is created to enslave women." You can safely conclude that Alia is a

A) radical feminist
B) social feminist
C) liberal feminist
D) cultural feminist

Question 10

Omar argues that women should be given similar opportunities as men in the work place. Omar is probably

A) radical feminist
B) social feminist
C) liberal feminist
D) cultural feminist

Question 11

Which statement describes the views of a cultural feminist:

A) women can create peace and harmony in our society due to their less aggressive nature
B) men and women should have equal rights and opportunities
C) major changes are needed to stop the oppression of women
D) psychology of women classes must be more effective in producing social change

Question 12

If a researcher conducts a study looking for differences between women and men's abilities, chances are she will find those differences. This is an example of

A) experimenter bias
B) bias theoretical model
C) biased in interpretation
D) bias in sampling

Question 13

A psychoanalyst is investigating "penis envy" in women. This is an example of:

A) experimenter bias
B) a biased theoretical model
C) bias in interpretation
D) bias in sampling

Question 14

Continuing to focus on differences between males and females may serve to

A) keep women down
B) keep men down
C) understand women's issues in a new light
D) none of the above

Question 15

Feminist research encourages

A) exploring various research methods including qualitative methods
B) questioning the biases contained in the literature reviews
C) questioning the biases in sampling
D) all of the above

Question 16

Which theory argues that "psychological traits, like physical ones, are selected through an evolutionary process because they are adaptive?"

A) social constructionism
B) sociobiology
C) traditional feminism
D) structured fundamentalism

Question 17

Which view claims that behavior is not merely biological, rather is influenced by the particular situation, the environment, history, political conditions and society as a whole?

A) social constructionism
B) sociobiology
C) traditional feminism
D) structured fundamentalism

Question 18

"We can only understand behavior in light of the social context in which the behavior takes place." This statement best explains the beliefs of:

A) social constructionism
B) sociobiology
C) traditional feminism
D) structured fundamentalism

Question 19

A research study that questions the reasons a battered woman stays with her husband

A) sheds very important light on the behavior of battered women
B) helps guide women to effectively seek help
C) implies that the problem is really with the woman since she chooses to stay in that relationship
D) helps the abusers understand their victims

Question 20

Feminist theorists value

A) considering your own biases when doing research
B) critically questioning traditional research methods and findings
C) trying to understand the issue from the participants' point of view
D) all of the above

Question 21

Differentiate between the sociobiological and the social constructionist views of gender.

Question 22

Explain and give examples of the cultural approach and the structural approach and how they conceptualize the process of socialization of men and women.

Question 23

Discuss the four schools of feminism mentioned in the text (socialist, radical, cultural, and liberal) and give examples of each.

Question 24

Describe three areas where feminist researchers criticize traditional research. What are the problems with research that focuses on gender differences?

Question 25

What is feminism? How has feminism positively affected research in psychology?