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1.
Define androcentric and understand its context in research.
Answer: • Androcentric: male-centered • field of psychology was heavily dominated by men until 1960s • researchers only studied heart disease in men and used that data to treat women; ended poorly
2.
What are the stages of research?
Answer: 1. Question formulation 2. Design Research 3. Data Analysis 4. interpreting Data 5. Publishing Results
3.
Describe how bias can impact each stage of research
Answer: Question formulation: gender stereotypes influence question Design Research: Participants selected based on bias, Research design based on stereotypes interpreting and Publishing: Statistics focuses more on differences than similarities
4.
Describe the First wave of Feminism
Answer: • Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848: rejected doctrine of female inferiority taught by academics • women won right to vote in 1920s
5.
Describe second wave of Feminism
Answer: • 1960s research in women and gender spiked • Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) was founded as part of APA • tried to equalize field of psychology
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1.
What is the difference between sex and gender?
Answer: Sex: what is in between your legs, hormones Gender- how someone chooses to express themselves; if someone chooses to be a woman, but has a penis... then they are a woman with a penis. Vagina = female Expression = woman
2.
Describe gender as a social construct
Answer: Gender is a performance. Something that is typically considered feminine is shaving their legs. However, not everyone who has a vagina shaves their legs. Some people with a penis shave their legs. However, in society\'s eyes, all people who have a vagina must shave their legs.
3.
Define self-fulfilling prophecy
Answer: Expectations of the self can make the expected events come true, often with powerful and long-lasting effects.
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How are women viewed and treated as objects?
Answer: • We do not have control over our bodies. - little to no reproductive rights - Men \"have a right \" to sexually harrass women because they have more rights over our bodies. Men choose when to have sex with women.
2.
Define objectification
Answer: action of degrading someone to the status of a mere object
3.
Define face-ism
Answer: small proportion of women\'s faces in media
4.
Define sexist language
Answer: congressman, history, Man (humanity), assuming subjects of all sentences are male
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What are the differences between Similarities Tradition (liberal feminism) and differences tradition (cultural feminism)?
Answer: Similar focuses on how men and women are similar in intelligence, personality, abilities, and goals. Differences states there is a fundamental difference between men and women, but that it should be honored.
2.
Define and understand statistical significance.
Answer: unlikely to occurred by chance
3.
Define confounding variables
Answer: an extra influence that may affect the dependent variable without researchers realizing
4.
How do we use Meta-analysis?
Answer: used in quantitative methods to summarize results of multiple research studies quantitative
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1.
Define sexual differentiation
Answer: genetic, hormonal, and anatomical components that develop gradually before birth
2.
What does it mean to be intersex?
Answer: 1. Number of specific variations on the theme of biological sex 2. 100s of different combinations
3.
What is core identity and how does it develop?
Answer: 1. Fundamental sense of belonging as a woman or comfortable as a man
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1.
Define Social Learning Theory
Answer: how children learn gendered behavior from their environment; implies we can reduce gendered behavior
2.
Define Gender Schema Theory
Answer: gender schema is learned very quickly, and it guides the individual in becoming gender typed; used by individuals to aid in their thinking and understanding
3.
Define self-silencing
Answer: stifling of feelings and thoughts by adolescent girls in effort to fit in and be a \'nice girl\'
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