Chapter 17: Retrospect and Prospect

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. In regard to gender equality in the last 150 years, feminism has made ______ progress.

A. little

B. some

C. enormous

D. no

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Future Research

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. When looking at gender traits, characteristics, and abilities, the general pattern is that females and males tend to be ______.

A. more different than similar

B. different biologically, but similar psychologically

C. more similar than different

D. different psychologically, but similar biologically

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Future Research

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Respecting our common humanity and empowering those from marginalized groups is a part of which perspective?

A. androgyny theory

B. analysis of humanity

C. re-visioning theory

D. intersectional feminism

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Future Research

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The traditional male role ______.

A. is flexible and variable

B. does not promote psychological well-being

C. has been changing rapidly

D. is similar to the traditional female role

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Future Research

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. A person who favors political, economic, and social equality of all people, regardless of gender, is referred to as a(n) ______.

A. idealist

B. feminist

C. socialist

D. humanist

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Feminism Revisited

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. According to feminism, “women’s issues” should be understood as _______.

A. men’s issues

B. traditional issues

C. modern issues

D. human issues

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Feminism Revisited

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Researchers used the ______ to measure women’s scores on their passive acceptance, including revelation, embeddedness, and active commitment.

A. Feminist Identity Scale

B. Socialization Scale

C. Modern Feminism Scale

D. Activist Scale

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Feminism Revisited

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Researchers measured students’ passive acceptance before and after taking a gender and women’s studies class and found that students’ passive acceptance ______.

A. remained the same

B. increased

C. decreased

D. increased for women, but not for men in the class

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Feminism Revisited

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Jane follows traditional gender roles and says that feminism is not needed because there is already equality for everyone. Jane is likely in which stage of feminist identity development?

A. passive acceptance

B. revelation

C. embeddedness

D. synthesis

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Feminism Revisited

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Meera has developed a sense of connectedness with a support group of women, receiving affirmation and strength from them. Meera is likely in which stage of feminist identity development?

A. passive acceptance

B. revelation

C. embeddedness

D. synthesis

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Feminism Revisited

Difficulty Level: Hard

11. Taylor revised ______ to incorporate women’s responses, which she characterizes as “tend and befriend.”

A. moral development theory

B. relationship theory

C. stress theory

D. Kohlberg’s theory

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Re-visioning Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Taylor revised classical stress theory to incorporate women’s responses, which she characterizes as ______.

A. care response

B. a paradigm shift

C. fight or flight

D. tend and befriend

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Re-visioning Theory

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. A field study (Sherman et al., 2017) examined the affiliative behaviors of men and women after winning or losing a competition. From these results, we can infer that ______.

A. there is some support for Taylor’s theory

B. there are no gender differences in the stress response system

C. there some gender differences in cortisol secretion

D. women experience fight or flight

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Re-visioning Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. After measuring stress responses in dog handlers before and after competition, researchers found striking gender differences in ______.

A. cortisol levels

B. the biobehavioral response

C. affiliative behaviors

D. palpitation

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Re-visioning Theory

Difficulty Level: Hard

15. According to Susan Faludi, in her book Backlash!, ______.

A. a counterassault of antifeminism has been launched to attack the progress women have made over the last several decades

B. women survivors of rape and battering need to unite to fight back against violent men

C. the 1994 election of a Republican majority in Congress re-invigorated the feminist movement to fight back

D. new reproductive technologies are leading to a decline in the status of the female role

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Continuing Feminist Revolution and Backlash

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. The idea that women’s struggle to “do it all” is a result of feminists’ fight for women to have access to paid employment is an example of ______.

A. feminisms faults

B. the androcentrist perspective

C. backlash against women and feminism

D. Bennett’s theory

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Continuing Feminist Revolution and Backlash

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Social psychology laboratory experiments ______.

A. support Faludi’s concept of backlash

B. show that women who are consistent with gender stereotypes are sabotaged by another person

C. show that when people are assigned to the role of feminist, they support violations of gender stereotypes

D. most women won’t interrupt another woman violating gender roles

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Continuing Feminist Revolution and Backlash

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Jeanne Moorman found that at 30, a never-married, college-educated woman had a ______ chance of marriage.

A. 20–25%

B. 33–38%

C. 42–50%

D. 58–66%

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Continuing Feminist Revolution and Backlash

Difficulty Level: Hard

19. Today, we are in the midst of feminism’s ______ wave.

A. first

B. second

C. third

D. fourth

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Continuing Feminist Revolution and Backlash

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. The ______ was an example of affirmation and support for gender equality.

A. Feminist March

B. Women’s March

C. Humanist March

D. Gender Equality March

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Continuing Feminist Revolution and Backlash

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. An intersectional approach considers numerous identities and how they shape individuals’ experiences throughout life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Future Research

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Overall, there are more gender differences than gender similarities.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Future Research

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. The masculine analysis would argue that male privilege is pervasive.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Future Research

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. There is some support for Taylor’s tend-and-befriend theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Re-visioning Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Today, we are in the third wave of feminism.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Continuing Feminist Revolution and Backlash

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer

1. What types of identities would you need to consider when taking an intersectional perspective?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Future Research

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Describe Faludi’s basic argument regarding backlash of feminism.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Continuing Feminist Revolution and Backlash

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Explain the four themes that arose from the textbook.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Introduction

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Explain Taylor’s tend-and-befriend theory challenging traditional stress models as they apply to women.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Re-visioning Theory

Difficulty Level: Hard