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When choosing your measures, you should consider - Answers you should consider all of these things
when engaging in psychological testing. (how you want to design your research study; the behavior you
wish to measure; how to choose your participants)

What does this author describe as the most fundamental aspect of psychological research? - Answers
the measures chosen.

As weekly discussion facilitator, you must - Answers email questions on chapter material to professor by
11:55 on Sunday.

You should expect your professor to answer your email - Answers within 2 days.

Often gender research include quasi design because - Answers you cannot randomly assign males and
females to gender conditions.

It's only been recently that researchers ask men about mood fluctuations throughout the month,
despite numerous research studies on monthly mood fluctuations (as they are associated with the
menstrual cycle) for women. This demonstrates a bias in - Answers questions asked.

Of the 25pts. allocated to the weekly discussions, how many points are earned by responding
thoughtfully to classmates posts after Wednesday? - Answers 10

In 2010, of the 100 senators,_____ were women, and of the 435 representatives,_____were women. -
Answers 17; 73

Often researchers compound biases in all-male sample choices by - Answers overgeneralizing the
results.

If you wanted to meet with me face to face, you could visit me during my office hours, - Answers
Monday and Wednesday, 12-1:00 in the OC.

Gender differences according to your author, as described as - Answers male-female differences no
matter what the cause.

A feminist is - Answers any person who favors political, economic and social equality for both men and
women.

Which of the following is a reason to study women in psychology? - Answers All are reasons to study
women. (women are fascinating; some experiences of women are unique to women such as childbirth,
menstruation, and breastfeeding,; many classic theories are based on studies that include men only.)

If you have computer problems and cannot get online, according to your syllabus, you should - Answers
have a backup plan.

,When gender differences found in predicting exam scores, with male vs. female predicting higher scores,
are interpreted as females having lower self-esteem rather than males over-inflating their abilities, it
demonstrates an example of - Answers female deficit model.

The academic discipline that applies evolutionary theory to understand the social behaviors of animals
including humans is - Answers sociobiology.

According to Nancy Chodorow, in her book The Reproduction of Mothering, the devaluation of women
is due to - Answers women doing almost all of the childcare.

Critics of evolutionary psychologists' arguments about .70 waist-to-hip ratio for women note that -
Answers only a and b above.

he WHR of miss America pageant winners has changed significantly over time.

women with a WHR of a 0.80 are actually more fertile than those with a 0.70.

There is disagreement among feminist anthropologists regarding - Answers whether the male role is
always valued more in all societies.

According to cognitive-developmental theory - Answers formation of a concept of gender identity is the
important first step in gender-role development.

In a re-analysis of Buss's 37 cultures data, Eagly and Wood found that - Answers the magnitude of
gender difference correlated with the degree of gender equality across cultures.

Data from the United Nations indicates that - Answers the U. S. ranks 37th among nations in gender
equality.

Who was the founder of child psychology? - Answers Anna Freud

In response to Freud's views, Karen Horney argued that - Answers men envy women, particularly
women's reproductive potential.

An approach that insists that the effect of gender, race, social class, and sexual orientation should all be
considered simultaneously is - Answers internationalist.

An important experiment by Bandura investigated gender differences in the aggressiveness of children,
and the experiment is often cited as support for the social-learning explanation of gender difference.
The study showed that - Answers reinforcements are key in producing equally aggressive behaviors in
males and females.

Social-learning theories of gender-role acquisition stress the importance of - Answers imitation and
observational learning.

One criticism of Chodorow's theory is that - Answers it assumes that all children grow up heterosexual
and makes no attempt to understand lesbian development.

, According to meta-analysis testing some of Gilligan's hypotheses about moral reasoning, - Answers
gender differences in care-oriented reasoning are small, d=-.28.

According to psychoanalytic theory, the goal of the phallic stage is - Answers girls and boys begin to
identify with their same sex parent.

Research on gender-role stereotypes and ethnicity indicates that - Answers both b and c are true.

females from all ethnic groups are stereotyped as pleasant and friendly.

white American and Asian American females are stereotyped as intelligent, but African American and
Mexican American females are not.

A meta-analysis of gender differences in helping behavior found that - Answers whether males are more
likely to help or females are more likely to help depends on the situation.

According to research on gender and stereotype threat, - Answers both a and d.

when women are told that a math test typically shows gender differences, they perform less well on it
than if they are told it is gender fair.

women's math performance does not differ significantly from men's when they are told the math test is
gender-fair.

According to a meta-analysis of studies of gender differences in self-esteem, - Answers d=0.2, indicating
that males have higher self-esteem, but the gender difference is small.

In studies of gender differences in personality and behavior, the behavior that most consistently shows
gender differences at all age levels is - Answers aggressive behavior.

Swim had participants estimate how large gender differences are and then compared the results with
meta-analyses. She found that - Answers people are fairly accurate at estimating the magnitude of
gender differences.

In one study, researchers measures people's reaction times to the pairing of male and math compared
with female and math. They were measuring - Answers implicit stereotypes

In 1977,___ percent of Americans agreed with the statement "It is much better for everyone involved if
the man is the achiever outside the home and the woman takes care of the home and family," whereas
in 2008___ percent agreed. - Answers 66; 37

Suppose that we find a statistically significant gender difference on personality trait X. From this we can
infer - Answers finding a gender difference gives no evidence of what causes it.

According to Susan Fiske's theorizing about stereotypes and power, - Answers both a and c.

stereotypes exert power or control over people

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