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Chapter 3: Sex and Gender
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. The socially constructed or nonbiological characteristics that make you male or female are identified by which term?
a. sex
b. hormones
c. gender
d. metanarrative
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What’s the Difference Between Sex and Gender?
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. People with ambiguous genitalia or a combination of male and female genitalia are referred to as ______.
a. intersex
b. hermaphrodites
c. transgender
d. homosexual
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intersexuality
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Which of the following individuals is transgender?
a. Mike, who is biologically male and is attracted to men.
b. Sara, who is biologically female and is attracted to men.
c. Sam, who is biologically male but feels that he is female.
d. Ella, whose genitals are ambiguous but who has a Y chromosome.
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Complexity of Gender Identity and Gender Roles
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Your sense of being male or female is known as your ______.
a. orientation
b. innate sense
c. gender identity
d. social construct
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Complexity of Gender Identity and Gender Roles
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. A standardized belief that a certain group of people all have certain traits or all behave similarly to each other is a ______.
a. gender identity
b. stereotype
c. schema
d. gender role
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender Stereotypes
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. Which of the following is an example of stereotype threat?
a. A man runs a successful catering business.
b. A woman becomes a partner in a major law firm.
c. A boy threatens another boy who teases him for not acting tough.
d. A girl who believes that females do poorly in math fails a math test.
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Stereotype Threat
Difficulty Level: Hard
7. Which statement about sexual orientation is INCORRECT according to current research?
a. It exists on a continuum.
b. It is modifiable.
c. The term refers to feelings of sexual arousal.
d. It can influence the way a person is treated within the family.
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Can Sexual Orientation Change?
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. The belief that heterosexuality is normal and other sexualities are not is referred to as ______.
a. heteronormativity
b. heterosupremacy
c. heterocentrism
d. heterosexuality
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Heteronormativity
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. A gender schema is a ______.
a. plan to transition to a different gender
b. preparation for assuming an adult gender role
c. research program similar to a meta-analysis
d. template for correct behavior for each gender
Learning Objective: 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender Schema Theory
Difficulty Level: Hard
10. A researcher who examines the results of many previous studies is performing a ______.
a. quantitative research design
b. field trial
c. meta-analysis
d. controlled experiment
Learning Objective: 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender. | 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Gender Similarity Hypothesis
Difficulty Level: Hard
11. A child who holds non-stereotyped views about gender and thinks flexibly about men’s and women’s abilities would be described as ______.
a. transsexual
b. aschematic
c. essentialized
d. androgynous
Learning Objective: 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender Schema Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Which of the following is an example of hostile sexism?
a. A man escorts his wife whenever she goes out at night.
b. A man buys his wife an extravagant gift for her birthday.
c. A man tells a sexist joke at a business meeting.
d. A man withholds bad news from his wife to avoid upsetting her.
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Sexism
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. Which statement about prenatal sexual differentiation is INCORRECT?
a. All embryos start out as females.
b. All embryos receive an X or Y chromosome from the father.
c. All embryos have both Mullerian and Wolffian ducts.
d. Genes on the X chromosome trigger the embryo to make testosterone.
Learning Objective: 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender. | 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Prenatal Sexual Differentiation
Difficulty Level: Hard
14. Which statement about prenatal sex differentiation is INCORRECT?
a. A transgender person’s prenatal development may differ from the normal sequence.
b. The embryonic brain develops before the gonads and therefore plays a vital role.
c. The effect of stress hormones may differ greatly from one individual to another.
d. A person may be genetically male or female yet have a brain like that of the other sex.
Learning Objective: 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender. | 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Prenatal Sexual Differentiation
Difficulty Level: Hard
15. Which term refers to the onset of menstruation?
a. menarche
b. inception
c. commencement
d. menses
Learning Objective: 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Puberty and Gender
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Compared with adult women, adult men tend to have ______.
a. less chronic diseases
b. slower metabolic rates
c. higher injury rates
d. lower death rates
Learning Objective: 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Diverse Lives of Adult Men
Difficulty Level: Easy
17. All of the following are included in hegemonic masculinity EXCEPT the expectation that ______.
a. men dominate women and children
b. men and women hold similar jobs
c. violence against women is acceptable
d. the male body is privileged
Learning Objective: 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Contemporary Trends for Modern Men
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. As of 2014, for every dollar earned by men, women earned ______.
a. $0.69
b. $0.79
c. $0.89
d. $1.00
Learning Objective: 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender. | 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Diverse Lives of Adult Women
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. Which of the following is an example of kinship work?
a. homeschooling children
b. working outside the home
c. planning a family gathering
d. sending children to religious school
Learning Objective: 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Diverse Lives of Adult Women
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. Compared with citizens of other countries in the industrialized world, people in the United States ______.
a. receive more extensive social welfare benefits
b. receive more child care benefits
c. spend more private funds on health care
d. have lower teen pregnancy and abortion rates
Learning Objective: 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society. | 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Macrosystem Influences on Women and Their Families
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. In western industrialized nations, overt sexism (prejudice or discrimination against women) may be more pervasive today than it was in the past.
Learning Objective: 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexism
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Benevolent sexism is an overt negative or unkind act that reveals an attitude of bias against women. Someone might make sexist jokes, sexually harass a woman at work, oppress a female partner’s goals or desires, or tell a female partner to “shut up” during a discussion.
Learning Objective: 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexism
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Hostile sexism, on the other hand, is characterized by positive or kind acts which nevertheless reveal views of women as in some way inferior.
Learning Objective: 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexism
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Boys are more likely to be diagnosed with learning disabilities and behavioral problems, to end up in the juvenile justice system, and to be convicted of violent crimes than girls are.
Learning Objective: 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Men and Masculinity
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. Male entitlement refers to our complex senses of self, stemming from demographic variables like our race, social class, sexual orientation, ability level, age, and gender.
Learning Objective: 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Men and Masculinity
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. Gender similarity hypothesis, the argument that men and women resemble each other much more than is popularly believed.
Learning Objective: 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender Similarity Hypothesis
Difficulty Level: Hard
7. Meta-analysis refers to mental templates about what is appropriate for both genders.
Learning Objective: 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender. | 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Similarity Hypothesis
Difficulty Level: Hard
8. Review of the literature is a study that compiles the findings of many diverse studies on a topic and statistically analyzes the overall magnitude of the findings.
Learning Objective: 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender. | 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Similarity Hypothesis
Difficulty Level: Hard
9. Gender schema theory states that boys and girls learn very quickly what is expected of them in terms of gendered behavior, traits, and abilities.
Learning Objective: 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Gender Schema Theory
Difficulty Level: Hard
10. Gender aschematic children, on the other hand, hold far greater stereotyped beliefs about gender.
Learning Objective: 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Gender Schema Theory
Difficulty Level: Hard
11. Social cognitive theory states that behaviors that are reinforced are more likely to be repeated.
Learning Objective: 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Cognitive Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Misogyny means that a person possesses traditionally masculine traits like assertiveness, confidence, and strength, and also traditionally feminine traits like nurturing, sensitivity, and empathy.
Learning Objective: 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender. | 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Cognitive Theory
Difficulty Level: Hard
13. All babies start out as girls.
Learning Objective: 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Prenatal Sexual Differentiation
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Gender expectations and preferences are not common in all cultures, and in some cultures, they are rare.
Learning Objective: 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender. | 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Contextual Influences on Prenatal and Infant Development
Difficulty Level: Hard
15. Men, in general, are becoming less gender biased and are looking for something more than what traditional gender expectations can provide for them.
Learning Objective: 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Contemporary Trends for Modern Men
Difficulty Level: Easy
16. Misogenic masculinity is where the male body is privileged, men dominate over women and children, there is a gendered division of labor, and aggression is acceptable.
Learning Objective: 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Contemporary Trends for Modern Men
Difficulty Level: Hard
Short Answer
1. Your culture, also known as this term, also influences how you experience your gender while living with your family.
Learning Objective: 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Overview: A Bioecological Approach to Sex and Gender
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. North American Indians identify a third gender which is neither male nor female. Anthropologists call a person with this type of gender a(n) ______.
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Two Genders or More?
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. People with ambiguous, or a combination of male and female, genitalia are referred to as being ______.
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Intersexuality
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. People who feel their gender is the opposite of their biological sex are referred to as being ______.
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender. | 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Complexity of Gender Identity and Gender Roles
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Some transgender individuals practice this, which is an attempt to be as masculine or feminine as possible, to suppress their feelings and avoid admitting to their true gender identity, which doesn’t fit their body’s appearance. What is the term for this practice?
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-5: Assimilate the theories of gender role development into your knowledge of gender. | 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Complexity of Gender Identity and Gender Roles
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. Which term describes the societal expectations of what are appropriate traits, characteristics, and behaviors of boys versus girls and men versus women?
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. | 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Complexity of Gender Identity and Gender Roles
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. The standardized belief that a certain group of people all behave similarly to each other is referred to as a(n) ______.
Learning Objective: 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender Stereotypes
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. As children are born, they are taught to believe that these traits exist in men or women, and they are raised to act in ways that fit those gender role expectations. What are these traits called?
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Stereotypes
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Which term refers to the sexual attraction, arousal, and desire a person feels toward people of a certain gender or genders?
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender and Sexual Orientation
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. Feminists see gender discrimination as impeding career and social success, but also as detrimental to ______.
Learning Objective: 3-4: Discuss the feminist idea that both men and women are harmed by sexism and heteronormativity in families and in society.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Discrimination and Sexism
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. Discuss the difference between sex and gender. What are some factors that make the distinction unclear? Give an example.
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: What’s the Difference Between Sex and Gender?
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. What is stereotype threat? Explain how it can affect people’s choices and options in life. Give at least one example.
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Stereotype Threat
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Discuss the different experiences that men and women have. Explain how differences in experience result in a perception of inherent differences.
Learning Objective: 3-1: Explain the differences between sex and gender. | 3-2: Describe the ways that gender impacts all people within their family relationships. | 3-3: Explain the differences between gender identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Diverse Lives of Adult Men | The Diverse Lives of Adult Women
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. Describe the role of social forces that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage through infancy.
Learning Objective: 3-6: Summarize some of the key biological and environmental factors that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage to adulthood.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Contextual Influences on Prenatal and Infant Development
Difficulty Level: Medium