Practice Marginalized Identities Exam Questions Ch.13

Chapter 13. Reflective Clinical Practice With People of Marginalized Sexual Identities

1. In current Western societies men’s sexualities tend to be _______ than women’s.

a. More stable

b. Less stable

c. More celebrated

d. Less celebrated

Cognitive domain: Analysis

Answer location: Categories Versus Lived Experiences

Question type: MC

2. Alfred Kinsey’s seminal study with White American participants revealed a prevalent variability in men’s sexual behaviors, with _______of the studied male population sexually engaging with both men and women.

a. 32%

b. 38%

c. 46%

d. 52%

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Categories Versus Lived Experiences

Question type: MC

3. ____________ refer to romantic, emotional, and/or erotic attractions to others that are expressed through behaviors, affectionate bonds, and romantic relationships.

a. Sexual orientation

b. Sexual attraction

c. Sexual desires

d. Sexual intimacy

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Categories Versus Lived Experiences

Question type: MC

4. ___________ refers to the way people understand themselves with regard to sexual orientation.

a. Sexual orientation

b. Sexual self

c. Sexual identity

d. Gender identity

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Categories Versus Lived Experiences

Question type: MC

5. _________ refers to dichotomizing human diversity, marking those who are perceived as different, and problematizing the marked group.

a. Othering

b. Diversifying

c. Differentiating

d. Segregating

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Heterosexism and Heteronormativity

Question type: MC

6. Various cultures have constructed sexuality according to

a. Global standards

b. International standards

c. American standards

d. Their own standards

Cognitive domain: Analysis

Answer location: Historical Context

Question type: MC

7. Historians and anthropologists ________ about the interpretation of homosexual behaviors.

a. Agree

b. Disagree

c. Whine

d. Compete

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Historical Context

Question type: MC

8. Currently, scientists agree that the stress of being a member of a socially oppressed group is a major contributor to increased incidence of

a. Mental health issues

b. Domestic violence

c. Divorce rates

d. Family breakdowns

Cognitive domain: Analysis

Answer location: Historical Context

Question type: MC

9. ____________ people are privileged and normalized.

a. Transgender

b. Cisgender

c. Genderqueer

d. Homosexual

Cognitive domain: Analysis

Answer location: Gender and Sexism

Question type: MC

10. Coming out has been acknowledged as a ___________process for people of marginalized sexual identities.

a. Positive but unhealthy

b. Positive and healthy

c. Negative but healthy

d. Negative and unhealthy

Cognitive domain: Application

Answer location: Becoming a Judicious Scholar of the Literature

Question type: MC

11. In contemporary religious institutions, men’s voices are usually given _______.

a. More credence than women’s

b. Less credence than women’s

c. Same credence than women’s

d. Zero credence

Cognitive domain: Analysis

Answer location: Awareness of Intersectionality of Identities

Question type: MC

12. Due to the intersection of oppressions targeting gender and sexual orientation/identity, women of marginalized sexual identities are exposed to _________, created by their double-subjugated status.

a. “Double bind”

b. “Double phobia”

c. “Double jeopardy”

d. “Double ism”

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Awareness of Heterosexism and Heteronormativity

Question type: MC

13. The assumption that all presenting mental health issues are related to the client’s sexual identity, orientation, or behavior is an example of

a. Gender anxiety

b. Sexual orientation microaggressions

c. Gender superiority

d. Corrective therapy

Cognitive domain: Application

Answer location: Self-Awareness and Examination of Social Locations

Question type: MC

14. __________ refers to the act of becoming irrationally upset or being made uncomfortable by the existence of those people who challenge or bring into question one’s entitlement.

a. Gender entitlement

b. Gender anxiety

c. Gender superiority

d. Gender stress

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Self-Awareness and Examination of Social Locations

Question type: MC

15. The connection of the word phobia to the field of psychiatry situates the term homophobia within the realm of_____________, thus absolving the people who propagate such discrimination of moral responsibility and failing to accentuate the structural inequities nested within marginalization and oppression.

a. Philosophy

b. Nature

c. Culture

d. Medicine

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Achievement Inequities

Question type: MC

16. The American Psychiatric Association eliminated homosexuality as a mental disorder in

a. 1972

b. 1978

c. 1982

d. 1986

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Historical Context

Question type: MC

17. The term __________ was coined by Weinberg in 1972 to denote irrationally negative attitudes toward, fear of, and hatred of gays and lesbians by straight people.

a. Sexual stigma

b. Homophobia

c. Heteronormativity

d. Microaggression

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Self-Awareness and Examination of Social Locations

Question type: MC

18. The idea that people who are born as biological males will become men who will naturally express masculinity, and people who are born as biological females will become women who will naturally express femininity is known as

a. Sexual identity

b. Gender identity

c. Heteronormativity

d. Cisnormativity

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Gender and Sexism

Question type: MC

19. __________refers to “the negative regard, inferior status, and relative powerlessness” that are attached to “non-heterosexual behaviors, identity, relationships, or communities.”

a. Hetero-stigma

b. Sexual stigma

c. Heteronormativity

d. Sexual orientation

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Heterosexism and Heteronormativity

Question type: MC

20. The American Psychiatric Association first defined homosexuality as a mental disorder in

a. 1952

b. 1968

c. 1970

d. 1974

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Historical Context

Question type: MC

21. Sexual behavior between people of the same gender has been documented only in Western societies.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Historical Context

Question type: TF

22. The present conceptualizations of homosexuality and heterosexuality are popularly believed to have emerged in 19th-century Europe based on the binary model of femininity and masculinity.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Historical Context

Question type: TF

23. Shortly after the concept of homosexuality was introduced to the United States, heterosexuality was assigned the “abnormal” status.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Historical Context

Question type: TF

24. Structural sexual stigma is also known as heterosexism.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Heterosexism and Heteronormativity

Question type: TF

25. Maintaining the dominance of heterosexuality involves the pervasive practice of othering.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Heterosexism and Heteronormativity

Question type: TF

26. Research conducted as early as the 1950s found that homo- and heterosexual people differ significantly in terms of mental health.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Historical Context

Question type: TF

27. Bisexual men tend to be more stigmatized than bisexual women.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Awareness of Heterosexism and Heteronormativity

Question type: TF

28. In comparison to men, women (in Western secular societies) tend to be allowed more flexibility to move across gendered spaces.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Awareness of Heterosexism and Heteronormativity

Question type: TF

29. Femininity is often cast in the role of pleasuring and benefiting masculinity.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Gender and Sexism

Question type: TF

30. Sexual stigma is internalized by everyone, regardless of sexual identity.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Thoughts on Reflective Counseling

Question type: TF

31. Explain the concept of heteronormativity.

a. Heteronormativity is a dominant social norm that promotes the presumed superiority and naturalness of heterosexuality. Within this ethos, heterosexual people are celebrated, recognized, and positioned as the only legitimate members of the “people” category, while those who deviate are stigmatized

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Heterosexism and Heteronormativity

Question type: SA

32. Define gender entitlement.

a. Gender entitlement is the arrogant conviction that one’s own beliefs, perceptions, and assumptions regarding gender and sexuality are more valid than those of other people.

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Self-Awareness and Examination of Social Locations

Question type: SA

33. Define the term cisgender people.

a. Cisgender people are those individuals who express and identify with the genders that were assigned to them at birth

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Gender and Sexism

Question type: SA