Test Bank for Gender, Psychological Perspectives, 7th Edition Brannon (All Chapters included)
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Social Psychology
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Social Psychology
Complete Test Bank for Gender, Psychological Perspectives, 7th Edition by Linda Brannon ; ISBN13: 9781138568457. (Full Chapters included Chapter 1 to 16).....1. The Study of Gender 2. Researching Sex and Gender 3. Gender Stereotypes: Masculinity and Femininity 4. Hormones and Chromosomes 5. The...
Chapter 1: The Study of Gender
Test Questions
Test Questions
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Those who believe that the differences between men and women have a biological basis hold
the ______ view.
a. nurturance
b. naturalist
c. minimalist
d. essentialist
Answer: d
2. The minimalist view holds that
a. the differences between the genders are large.
b. the differences between the genders are due to biological factors.
c. the differences between the genders are small.
d. no gender-related differences exist.
e. both a and b
Answer: c
3. The maximalist view holds that
a. the differences between the sexes are large.
b. male superiority is biologically based.
c. the differences between the sexes are small.
d. no differences exist between women and men.
Answer: a
4. Those who believe that the differences between the sexes are due to nature also tend to hold
that
a. differences between the sexes are biologically based.
b. differences between the sexes are based on social and cultural factors.
c. a mixture of biological and social factors creates differences.
d. genetic but not hormonal factors are the source of the differences.
Answer: a
5. Those who believe that the differences between the sexes are due to nurture believe that
a. differences between the sexes are biologically based.
b. differences between the sexes are based on social and cultural factors.
c. a mixture of biological and social factors creates differences.
d. genetic but not hormonal factors are the source of the differences.
Answer: b
6. Those who believe that gender differences are due to biological factors advocate _________
as the basis for differences, whereas those who believe that these differences are due to social and
cultural factors take the position that _____ is responsible.
a. nature . . . nurture
, b. nature . . . hormonal inheritance
c. nurture . . . nature
d. nurture . . . individual learning
Answer: a
7. Which of the following pairs represents views that are most similar and compatible?
a. nature: nurture
b. maximalist: minimalist
c. structuralism: behaviorism
d. essentialism: maximalism
Answer: d
8. By placing gender into categories conceptualized as opposites,
a. stereotypical thinking about gender decreases.
b. people begin to consider the similarities between women and men.
c. the differences between the genders are magnified.
d. people begin to understand the underlying biological basis of gender-related differences.
Answer: c
9. Exaggerations in gender-related differences tend to occur
a. in all cultures in very similar ways.
b. regardless of personal experience.
c. without forming stereotypes.
d. when people think of the genders in terms of opposites.
e. in all of the above situations.
Answer: d
10. If three sexes existed, then
a. gender-identity confusion would increase.
b. the tendency to think of women and men as opposites might decrease.
c. gender stereotypes would be more influential than they are now.
d. sexual relationships would not allow adequate matings for population maintenance.
Answer: b
11. Few early psychologists were women, mostly because
a. women did not have the intellectual ability to do the experiments that were the main work
of early psychology.
b. few women of that era wanted to attend professional school.
c. the programs that trained psychologists admitted few women.
d. there were no programs in the United States that trained psychologists until the 1920s,
and women were not allowed to travel to Europe.
Answer: c
12. The structuralist school of psychology
a. emphasized gender as a factor in human thought.
b. ignored gender as a factor in human thought.
c. included both women and men as participants in psychological research.
d. both a and c
e. none of the above
Answer: b
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