Psychology of Gender Application Quiz #2
blaming victims of domestic violence
All of the following correlate NEGATIVELY with benevolent sexism EXCEPT... (***Hint: when something correlates negatively, it means that as one variable increases, the other decreases)
The strength of gender stereotypes has not changed
Haines and colleagues (2016) present evidence that gender stereotypes in the US have followed what trend from 1983 to 2016?
increased popularity and self-esteem
In Western cultures, what are some of the outcomes of undergoing early puberty for boys?
Women's self-views became more agentic
Jean Twenge found what trend in gendered self-views across the years 1974-1994?
structural; relational
Men tend to hold more __________ and women sometimes hold more ___________.
force, resource control, cultural ideologies
Pratto and Walker (2004) identify three types of power including...
Even at a young age, children may develop a clear and consistent sense of themselves as belonging to a gender group that differs from their assigned sex
Research has demonstrated what about the capacities of young, pre-pubertal children to develop stable transgender identities
considering the multiple subgroups that people belong to
Research shows that __________ is an effective strategy for increasing tendencies to view people as unique individuals, as similar to ourselves, and to like them.
evaluations of women's competence decline more with age
Researchers examining the double standard of aging have found all of the following EXCEPT...
Middle Eastern men are more likely to serve as the group prototype because they hold more power than Middle Eastern women
Stereotypes about Middle Eastern men have fewer unique traits than stereotypes about Middle Eastern women. What is the cause of this finding according to intersectional theory?
20%
The global average representation of women in legislative bodies is around...
Information about the target's job overrided gender stereotypes
Which of the following describes the results from Eagly and Steffen's (1984) test of social role theory?
Women of color
Which of the following groups is most likely to encounter harassment in the workplace?
bisexual
Which of the following groups of different sexual orientations tend to evoke the most negative stereotypes overall?
Verbal characteristics
Which of the following is NOT one of Deaux and Lewis's (1984) proposed four components of gender stereotypes?
They are less likely to confront the perpetrator than they predict.
Which of the following is TRUE of how women respond to actual gender discrimination?
A woman performing worse in an online video game following a reminder that few women play the game
Which of the following is an example of stereotype threat?
women are low in agency but high in warmth
Which of the following is the best example of a status legitimizing belief?
in general, gender stereotypes for direction, discrepancy, and rank order are fairly accurate across all three domains.
Which of the following is true regarding gender stereotype accuracy across the domains of personality, cognitive ability, and communication?
men typically live near their wives families
Which of the following would NOT describe a society that is patrilineal, patrilocal, and matriarchal?
kindness; assertiveness
While on average women are rated more highly than men on traits such as __________, men are rated more highly on __________.
Cultural ideologies
__________ encourage(s) members of subordinate groups to accept their own lower status. For example, women who appreciate the benefits of protection and chivalry that their female status earns them.
hegemonic masculinity
__________ refers to a culturally idealized and exaggerated vision of manhood that consists of competition, aggression, success, and toughness.
Hostile
__________ sexism consists of antagonistic and insulting beliefs about women and their roles
the emergence of gender identity causes children to perform gender typical behavior
according to cognitive developmental theory, what is the causal relationship between gender identity and gender typical behaviors
they endorse fewer gender stereotypes
in which of the following ways do children raised by same-sex parents differ from children with parents of both sexes
social learning; cognitive
major theories of gender development fall into two broad categories: ___________ and ___________
the process by which individuals acquire gendered behavioral patterns through social reward and punishment
which of the following best describes what Walter Mischel (1966) meant by the term sex-typing
attempts to prime gender stereotypes will have smaller effects upon their judgement and behavior
which of the following do you predict to be true of someone who is gender aschematic
Instructor evaluations are biased by gender stereotypes, likely outside of students' awareness
which of the following is the most likely explanation of the evidence presented by MacNell and colleagues (2015) on gender bias and teaching evaluations
