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

Learning Objective: Identify the future of gender research.

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

Learning Objective: Identify the future of gender research.

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

Learning Objective: Identify the future of gender research.

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

Learning Objective: Identify the future of gender research.

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

Learning Objective: Explain feminism today.

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

Learning Objective: Explain feminism today.

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

Learning Objective: Explain feminism today.

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 classes 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

Learning Objective: Explain feminism today.

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

Learning Objective: Explain feminism today.

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

Learning Objective: Explain feminism today.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Feminism Revisited

Difficulty Level: Hard

11. A woman who discovers sex discrimination as a result of a life event is in the ______ stage of feminist identity.

A. synthesis

B. revelation

C. active commitment

D. emanation

Learning Objective: Summarize the gender re-visioning theory.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

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

Learning Objective: Summarize the gender re-visioning theory.

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

Learning Objective: Summarize the gender re-visioning theory.

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

Learning Objective: Summarize the gender re-visioning theory.

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 reinvigorated the feminist movement to fight back

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

Learning Objective: Evaluate the continuing feminist revolution and backlash.

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

Learning Objective: Evaluate the continuing feminist revolution and backlash.

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

Learning Objective: Evaluate the continuing feminist revolution and backlash.

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 women had a ______ chance of marriage.

A. 20%–25%

B. 33%–38%

C. 42%–50%

D. 58%–66%

Learning Objective: Evaluate the continuing feminist revolution and backlash.

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

Learning Objective: Evaluate the continuing feminist revolution and backlash.

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

Learning Objective: Evaluate the continuing feminist revolution and backlash.

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.

Learning Objective: Identify the future of gender research.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Future Research

Difficulty Level: Easy

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

Learning Objective: Identify the future of gender research.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Future Research

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Principles of feminist research have become widely practiced and even conventional in some cases.

Learning Objective: Identify the future of gender research.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Future Research

Difficulty Level: Easy

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

Learning Objective: Summarize the gender re-visioning theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Re-visioning Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

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

Learning Objective: Evaluate the continuing feminist revolution and backlash.

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?

Learning Objective: Identify the future of gender research.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Future Research

Difficulty Level: Easy

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

Learning Objective: Evaluate the continuing feminist revolution and backlash.

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.

Learning Objective: Identify the future of gender research.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Retrospect and Prospect

Difficulty Level: Hard

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

Learning Objective: Summarize the gender re-visioning theory.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Re-visioning Theory

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Explain how, according to Kuhn’s analysis, feminism is a paradigm in psychology.

Learning Objective: Summarize the gender re-visioning theory.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Re-visioning Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium