Chapter.2 Test Bank Docx Theoretical Perspectives On Gender - Final Test Bank | Psychology of Women and Gender 10e by Else Quest by Nicole M. Else Quest. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives on Gender
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. According to Freud, the major differences between males and females originate in the ______.
A. oral stage
B. anal stage
C. phallic stage
D. latency stage
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. According to psychoanalytic theory, in the ______ stage, the Oedipal complex occurs.
A. phallic
B. anal
C. oral
D. latency
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. According to Freud, there are differences in superego formation for males and females because ______.
A. males never adequately resolve the Oedipal complex
B. females never adequately resolve the Electra complex
C. females are developmentally more precocious than males
D. males remain attached to their mothers
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Freud’s concept of “immature superego” in women is similar to ______.
A. the myths of feminine evil
B. the concept of “identification”
C. the concept of “castration anxiety”
D. the concept of “fixation”
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. Claire, a middle-aged woman, is feeling unsuccessful in her career as an actress. She finds herself becoming jealous of the male actors who seem to get offered more roles than she does. She is thinking about giving up on her acting career and becoming a stay-at-home mother. A psychoanalyst would interpret Claire’s feelings as being due to ______.
A. castration anxiety
B. an unresolved Electra complex
C. penis envy
D. excess libido
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Feminists are critical of Freud’s assumption that ______.
A. there are stages of development
B. the penis is superior to the clitoris or vagina
C. gender differences exist
D. development is shaped by cultural and social forces
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Criticisms of Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. In response to Freud’s views, Karen Horney argued that ______.
A. females have penis envy
B. more phallocentrism was necessary in psychological theories
C. libido is an important force for both men and women
D. men experience womb envy
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Karen Horney
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Which theorist extended the psychoanalytic view of the psychology of women?
A. Karen Horney
B. Helene Deutsch
C. Nancy Chodorow
D. Anna Freud
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Karen Horney
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Karen Horney believed that men’s achievement represents a femininity complex due to their ______.
A. Electra complex
B. breast envy
C. Oedipal complex
D. womb envy
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Karen Horney
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. According to Nancy Chodorow, in her book The Reproduction of Mothering, the devaluation of women is due to ______.
A. men’s greater muscular strength
B. evolution
C. women being pregnant, which gives men power over them
D. women doing almost all of the childcare
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Nancy Chodorow
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Little girls are typically rewarded for being quiet and obedient, whereas little boys are often rewarded for being athletic and tough. As a result, children are more likely to repeat the behaviors that have been reinforced, and gender differences in behavior develop. Which theory best explains this phenomenon?
A. social learning theory
B. cognitive-developmental theory
C. gender schema theory
D. psychoanalytic theory
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Learning Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. ______ is the acquisition of gender-specific behaviors and learning of gender roles.
A. Observational learning
B. Imitation
C. Gender typing
D. Gender constancy
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Social Learning Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. Social learning theories of gender role acquisition stress the importance of ______.
A. the child’s acquisition of a concept of gender identity
B. the discovery of anatomical differences between females and males
C. the feminine principle
D. imitation and observational learning
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Learning Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Which of the following most closely approximates the social learning view about gender role development?
A. Children do what they are rewarded for.
B. Children do what they are rewarded for and also what they see others doing.
C. The formation of a concept of gender identity is crucial to gender-role development.
D. Children stop doing what they are punished for.
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Learning Theory
Difficulty Level: Hard
15. ______ refers to our beliefs about our ability to accomplish something or to produce a particular outcome.
A. Gender identity
B. Self-efficacy
C. Gender constancy
D. Schema
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Cognitive Social Learning Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
16. Self-efficacy beliefs are important in gender development according to ______.
A. cognitive social learning theory
B. Chodorow’s theory
C. cognitive-developmental theory
D. feminist theory
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Cognitive Social Learning Theory
Difficulty Level: Hard
17. According to cognitive-developmental theory, ______.
A. children acquire the concept of gender constancy rather late around the beginning of adolescence
B. children must be given strict punishments for gender-inappropriate behavior in order for them to develop normally
C. formation of a concept of gender identity is the important first step in gender-role development
D. girls acquire the concept that boys are superior because of their anatomy by about age 3
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. Cognitive-developmental theorists use the term ______ for the child’s understanding that gender is a permanent, unchanging characteristic.
A. gender schema
B. gender constancy
C. gender identity
D. gender predictability
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. According to cognitive-developmental theory, the child’s gender-role learning is ______.
A. shaped by reinforcements and punishments
B. a result of imitation
C. motivated by parents’ socialization practices
D. self-motivated
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. A young girl says she believes that it can sometimes be acceptable to break the law if human lives are in danger because human life is more important than obeying the law. This is an example of what level of morality according to Kohlberg?
A. postconventional morality
B. preconventional morality
C. conventional morality
D. conservative morality
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Focus 2.1: Feminist Reformulation of a Theory of Moral Development
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. Kohlberg used the dilemma of Heinz, whose wife is dying of cancer, to measure ______.
A. stage of gender constancy
B. stage of moral reasoning
C. extent of gender identification
D. gender-schematic processing of information
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Focus 2.1: Feminist Reformulation of a Theory of Moral Development
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. According to Gilligan's feminist analysis of moral development, in moral reasoning males emphasize ______, whereas females emphasize ______.
A. power; love
B. dominance; nurturance
C. justice and individual rights; relationships and caring
D. universal ethical principles; law and order
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Focus 2.1: Feminist Reformulation of a Theory of Moral Development
Difficulty Level: Easy
23. Research testing Gilligan’s theory of moral development has found ______.
A. there are only small gender differences in moral reasoning on Kohlberg’s dilemmas
B. there is evidence for the care perspective but not the justice perspective
C. there is evidence for the justice perspective but not the care perspective
D. that Gilligan’s theory is androcentric
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Focus 2.1: Feminist Reformulation of a Theory of Moral Development
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. According to Bem, the gender schema ______.
A. explains why girls fall in love more quickly than boys
B. explains why boys are more aggressive than girls
C. represents a basic tendency to process information regardless of gender
D. is closely linked to the self-concept
Learning Objective: Explain the gender theory schema.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Schema Theory
Difficulty Level: Hard
25. In one experiment, 5- and 6-year-old children were shown pictures of children engaged in stereotype consistent or stereotype inconsistent activities. A week later, their memory was tested and it was found that they distorted the information in the stereotype inconsistent pictures to make them stereotype consistent. This study is cited as evidence for ______.
A. social learning theory
B. sociobiology
C. gender schema theory
D. Gilligan’s feminist reformulation of moral development theory
Learning Objective: Explain the gender theory schema.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Schema Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. A female using one of her eggs and using her body to gestate her young is an example of ______.
A. evolutionary fitness
B. parental investment
C. a double standard
D. sexual selection
Learning Objective: Summarize the sociobiology and evolutionary psychology perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Parental Investment
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. A man being allowed and encouraged to be promiscuous, whereas a woman is punished for engaging in promiscuous sex is an example of ______.
A. parental investment
B. sexual selection
C. the sexual double standard
D. a feminist critique
Learning Objective: Summarize the sociobiology and evolutionary psychology perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Parental Investment
Difficulty Level: Easy
28. Purported cross-cultural tests of evolutionary psychology are not truly cross-cultural because of ______.
A. heteronormativity and the gender binary
B. globalization and the far reach of American media
C. researcher bias
D. cultural similarities outweighing cultural differences
Learning Objective: Summarize the sociobiology and evolutionary psychology perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Feminist Critique of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. Critics of evolutionary psychologists’ arguments about the 0.70 waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) for women note that ______.
A. there is considerable variation in the WHR of Miss America pageant winners
B. the 0.70 WHR is preferred not only by American men, but by men in all cultures that have been studied
C. women with a WHR of 0.90 are actually more fertile than those with a WHR of 0.70
D. White men prefer this body type but Latinos reject it
Learning Objective: Summarize the sociobiology and evolutionary psychology perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Feminist Critique of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology
Difficulty Level: Medium
30. A feminist evolutionary psychologist would argue that ______.
A. sex and gender are not a factor in evolutionary psychology
B. men are not the primary active agent in evolutionary processes
C. women are and have been active agents in evolutionary processes
D. sexual selection and competition for mates is not related to gender
Learning Objective: Summarize the sociobiology and evolutionary psychology perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Feminist Evolutionary Psychology and Feminist Sociobiology
Difficulty Level: Hard
31. ______ emphasizes not cross-cultural universals, but rather the variability across cultures in patterns of gender differences.
A. Feminist theory
B. Queer theory
C. Evolutionary psychology
D. Social role theory
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Social Role Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
32. In a reanalysis of Buss’s 37 cultures data, Eagly and Wood found that, supporting social role theory, ______.
A. 50% of cultures have greater gender equality than the United States
B. cultures with greater gender inequality have larger gender differences
C. cultures with greater gender inequality have smaller gender differences
D. mate preferences are determined by evolution
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Social Role Theory
Difficulty Level: Hard
33. Feminist theories were created by ______.
A. no single person
B. Anna Freud and Karen Horney
C. women of color
D. transgender women
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Feminist Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
34. The concept of ______ is key to feminist analysis.
A. love
B. justice
C. compassion
D. power
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender as Status and Power
Difficulty level: Easy
35. “The personal is political.” This most likely would have been said by a ______.
A. social learning theorist
B. sociobiologist
C. feminist
D. psychoanalyst
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender as Status and Power
Difficulty level: Easy
36. Mr. Smith, an executive, gropes his female assistant. A feminist would say that ______.
A. this is a good example of the personal as political
B. this provides more support for gender schema theory
C. this is an example of men’s self-efficacy
D. this provides more support for feminist sociobiology theory
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender as Status and Power
Difficulty level: Easy
37. The term for an approach that simultaneously considers multiple categories of identity, difference, and disadvantage is ______.
A. social constructionism
B. multiracial
C. intersectionality
D. gender schema theory
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Intersectionality
Difficulty Level: Easy
38. When we use the approach of intersectionality, we ______.
A. first draw a Venn diagram
B. acknowledge how common multiracial people are
C. are applying gender schema theory and social learning theory
D. simultaneously consider the effects of gender, race, social class, and sexual orientation
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intersectionality
Difficulty Level: Easy
39. The term for the theoretical perspective that one’s gender, gender identity, and sexual desire are not stable, fixed, biologically based characteristics but rather fluid and dynamic aspects of individuals shaped by culture is ______.
A. social learning theory
B. queer theory
C. social role theory
D. intersectionality
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Queer Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
40. Dagmar is a battered wife. A feminist would attribute the cause of her problem to ______.
A. internal factors
B. poor adjustment
C. external factors
D. the psychopathology of her husband
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: External Versus Internal Attributions of Problems
Difficulty Level: Medium
41. ______ believe in working within the system for reform.
A. Socialist feminists
B. Cultural feminists
C. Liberal feminists
D. Existential feminists
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Diversity of Feminisms
Difficulty Level: Medium
42. The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an example of ______.
A. liberal feminism
B. cultural feminism
C. Marxist feminism
D. radical feminism
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Diversity of Feminisms
Difficulty Level: Medium
43. Cultural feminism is sometimes called ______.
A. ethos feminism
B. social feminism
C. traditional feminism
D. care-focused feminism
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Diversity of Feminisms
Difficulty Level: Medium
44. The belief that women have special, unique qualities that differentiate them from men and that we should elevate and value those special qualities is referred to as ______.
A. radical feminism
B. cultural feminism
C. ecofeminism
D. liberal feminism
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Diversity of Feminisms
Difficulty Level: Easy
45. ______ point out the extent to which the capitalist system benefits from oppressing women in ways such as wage discrimination.
A. Existentialist feminists
B. Liberal feminists
C. Socialist feminists
D. Radical feminists
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Diversity of Feminisms
Difficulty Level: Easy
46. Which type of feminist might advocate separatist communities in which women can come together to pursue their work free of men’s oppression?
A. cultural feminists
B. liberal feminists
C. socialist feminists
D. radical feminists
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Diversity of Feminisms
Difficulty Level: Medium
47. Which type of feminist questions rationality and objectivity as methods for getting at truth, whether in the humanities or the sciences?
A. existentialist feminists
B. liberal feminists
C. socialist feminists
D. radical feminists
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Diversity of Feminisms
Difficulty Level: Medium
48. Gisele believes in promoting a more inclusive and intersectional feminist perspective. She may identify most with ______.
A. socialist feminists
B. cultural feminists
C. women-of-color feminists
D. existential feminists
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Diversity of Feminisms
Difficulty Level: Medium
49. ______ focuses on environmental issues, such as climate change.
A. Radical feminism
B. Cultural feminism
C. Ecofeminism
D. Liberal feminism
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Diversity of Feminisms
Difficulty Level: Easy
50. Most theories of gender development debate the role of ______ in gender development.
A. modeling
B. imitation
C. nature
D. power
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Evaluation of Feminist Theories
Difficulty Level: Easy
True/False
1. Children’s imitation is motivated partly by the power of authority figures.
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Social Learning Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. According to social learning theory, children’s imitation is partly motivated by the power of authority figures.
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Social Learning Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. There is currently no evidence that parents treat boys and girls differently and that they differentially reward some behaviors in boys and girls.
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Evidence for Social Learning Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. People with low efficacy beliefs redouble their efforts in the face of challenges, whereas those with a strong sense of efficacy give up.
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Cognitive Social Learning Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Children typically have gender identity around 2 years of age.
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. According to Gilligan, men focus on attachments between people and women focus on contracts between people.
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Focus 2.1: Feminist Reformulation of a Theory of Moral Development
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. A traditionally masculine man is an example of a gender schematic individual.
Learning Objective: Explain the gender theory schema.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Schema Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. According to evolutionary psychology, the social behavior of female infanticide would be maladaptive, decreasing one’s reproductive fitness.
Learning Objective: Summarize the sociobiology and evolutionary psychology perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. The data support Buss’s (1989) theory that a man will be more jealous if his female mate engages in sexual infidelity and a woman will be more jealous if her male mate engages in emotional infidelity.
Learning Objective: Summarize the sociobiology and evolutionary psychology perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Evolutionary Psychology
Difficulty Level: Hard
10. Queer theory refers to a theory that describes people who identify as gay or lesbian.
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Queer Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Feminists are often critical of analyses that assume women’s problems are caused by internal or personal factors.
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: External Versus Internal Attributions of Problems
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. There are several different kinds of feminism.
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Diversity of Feminisms
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. Postmodern feminism is more focused on social action than any other type of action.
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Diversity of Feminisms
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer
1. Compare and contrast theory and empirical evidence.
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender. | Explain the gender theory schema. | Summarize the sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. | Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Chapter Introduction Paragraph
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Explain two criticisms of Freudian theory.
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Criticisms of Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Name the three mechanisms that are thought to underlie the process of gender typing and give an example of each.
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge and Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Learning Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Explain why the female orgasm evolved in humans according to sociobiologists.
Learning Objective: Summarize the sociobiology and evolutionary psychology perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Parental Investment
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Theorists believe that there are four sources of power when one person or group has power over another. Name three of the four sources of power.
Learning Objective: Evaluate the social role and feminist theories of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender as Status and Power
Difficulty Level: Easy
Essay
1. Explain why it is important to understand Freudian theory, also referred to as psychoanalytic theory, when there is little empirical evidence to support it.
Learning Objective: Compare the psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive development perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Juan and Maria have been married for 25 years. Juan is a lawyer and tends to be more assertive than Maria. Maria is a stay-at-home mother and tends to be more compliant than Juan. How would a sociobiologist explain the differences between Juan and Maria? How would a feminist explain the differences between Juan and Maria?
Learning Objective: Summarize the sociobiology and evolutionary psychology perspectives on gender.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology | Feminist Critique of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology | Social Role Theory
Difficulty Level: Hard
Document Information
Connected Book
Final Test Bank | Psychology of Women and Gender 10e by Else Quest
By Nicole M. Else Quest