Communication and Gender Test Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic intersection between communication and gender, examining how gender identities and roles are constructed, maintained, and challenged through various forms of communication. Students analyze verbal, nonverbal, media, and interpersonal communication practices, considering how cultural, societal, and institutional influences shape understandings of gender. The course also addresses contemporary issues such as gender representation in media, power dynamics, intersectionality, and advocacy, providing students with critical tools to recognize and address gender-based biases and inequalities in everyday interactions and professional contexts.
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Gendered Lives 11th Edition by Julia T. Wood
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Chapter 1: The Study of Communication Gender and Culture
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Q1) Heterosexual men and women report being happier and more satisfied with their relationships when their partners
A) define themselves as feminists.
B) define themselves as nonfeminists.
C) have the same attitudes toward feminism as they do.
D) are unconcerned about feminism.
E) There is no research about relationship satisfaction and feminisms.
Answer: A
Q2) Identify and explain why many people do not identify themselves as feminists,even when their beliefs and values align themselves with those of feminism.
Answer: Fminism is not one single belief or political position.The media portrays feminists as "man-hating,tough,shrill extremists." Feminism is often portrayed as in conflict with femininity.
Q3) Transsexual
Answer: Transsexual is a term that usually refers to someone who has changed their physical sex to more closely align with their sexual identity.This is done through hormones and surgery.Transsexuals are often referred to as post-transitional males to females (MTF)or post-transitional females to males (FTM).
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development
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Q1) When parents who seek to promote traditional gendered behaviors in their children reward tomboys for wearing frilly dresses or punish effeminate boys for playing with Barbies,they are assuming which theory of gender?
A) biological theory
B) psychodynamic theory
C) social learning theory
D) symbolic interaction theory
E) standpoint theory
Answer: C
Q2) At age 3,Bonnie realizes she is female and she wants to become skilled at being a girl. She begins to watch her mother and older sister and to model her behaviors after theirs. Bonnie's efforts to learn how to act feminine are best explained by which theory?
A) cognitive development
B) social learning
C) psychodynamic (or psychoanalytic)
D) biological
E) both B and C
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Women
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Q1) Explain the unique contributions of the women's rights movement and the cult of domesticity movement to first-wave feminism.
Answer: The women's rights movement focused on gaining political rights for women,including married women's property rights,access to higher education and the professions,and the vote.Women's rights activists largely embraced liberal feminism,or the idea that all people are equal and therefore deserve equal rights.The first women's rights convention was held in 1848 in Seneca Falls,New York; women's rights conventions became a key means for networking activists and promoting the cause. The cult of domesticity movement argued that women were fundamentally different from men and that women's superior moral sensibilities were required to clean up or improve the political sphere.In addition to promoting woman suffrage,cult of domesticity activists were active in abolition,temperance,and efforts to enact child labor laws.
Q2) Womanists address issues that affect working and lower-class women.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Men
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Q1) _______ movements are those who work to support feminist movements in addition to working to change the way masculinity is constructed in the United States.
A) Free Men
B) Masculinist
C) Men's equality
D) Profeminist
E) No men's movements support feminism.
Q2) The Men's Rights Movement argues that a number of contemporary policies and practices are discriminatory towards men; moreover,some men's rights groups argue that feminism is at least partially responsible for the implementation of these practices and policies.Identify one contemporary policy or practice that men's movements have identified as discriminatory and explain whether or not you agree with that classification.
Q3) Men's rights activist
Q4) Traitorous identity
Q5) NOMAS,MVP,and mythopoetics all agree that the current construction of masculinity can be harmful.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Gendered Verbal Communication
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Q1) Compare and contrast the rules of communication that are promoted in games typically played by boys and games typically played by girls.Discuss the implications of these games for communication by adult women and men.
Q2) Women tend to interrupt others more than men.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When home on break,you hear a friend use male-generic language.When you tell your friend it is sexist,your friend wants to know why.Based on what you have learned in this class,how might you explain to your friend that using such language is problematic?
Q4) Wood argues that language defines men and women differently.Explain the different ways men and women are defined and provide examples to support your claims.
Q5) Gender-linked language effect
Q6) The extent to which we speak in a masculine or a feminine style varies depending on context and other factors.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Polarized thinking
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Chapter 6: Gendered Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Power
Q2) Women are generally better at reading anger in the faces of others than are men. A)True
B)False
Q3) Female athletes are less susceptible to developing eating disorders than are the rest of the female population.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Men tend to take up more physical space than women do.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Territoriality
Q6) Responsiveness
Q7) Stace frowns at another boy and turns his back in disgust.Stace's nonverbal communication is demonstrating the liking dimension of relationship level meaning.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Explain which nonverbal behaviors may be employed to exert power and control and examine the link to gender.
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Chapter 7: Becoming Gendered: The Early Years
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Q1) Though many things have changed about gender over time,appearance is still a primary measure and marker of femininity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is true,according to psychoanalytic theorists?
A) Children of both sexes usually form their first identification with an adult woman.
B) Boys identify more closely with their fathers than girls identify with their mothers.
C) For a girl to fully form her identity, she must repress her original identification with her mother.
D) At around the age of one year, male and female development diverges dramatically. E) All of the above.
Q3) According to some counselors,pressure to live up to ideals of masculinity has led to an epidemic of hidden male depression.
A)True
B)False
Q4) "Anatomy is destiny"
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Chapter 8: Gendered Education: Communication in Schools
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Q1) Discuss the controversy over female abilities for math and/or science.How do females typically fare in math and science? Be sure to address biological and social factors.
Q2) More women than men hold full professorships in American colleges and universities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) On average,males in the United States lag behind their female peers in academics. A)True
B)False
Q4) Effortless perfection
Q5) Girls are more likely than boys to go to college.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Title IX
Q7) College males report studying more than college females do.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Invisible hand discrimination Page 10
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Chapter 9: Gendered Close Relationships
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Q1) Psychological responsibility
Q2) Cross-sex friendships tend to benefit women more than men.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Men who have sex with a lot of partners tend to be judged more harshly than women who do the same.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Gay and lesbian relationships tend to follow a best-friend model with the additional dimensions of sexuality and romance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In a heterosexual relationship,the male partner would be the one most likely to be responsible for remembering the child's doctor's appointments.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The Mommy Myth
Q7) Male deficit model
Q8) Feminine ruler:
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Chapter 10: Gendered Organizational Communication
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Q1) Glass escalator
Q2) Your textbook discusses the effect of outdated norms for career paths on women in the workplace.Describe what those norms are and how they impact women's careers.If you were to advocate for a change to these paths,what would that change be? Is that change realistic? Why or why not?
Q3) ________ are policies that judge effectiveness based on intention rather than results.
A) Affirmative action
B) Quotas
C) Equal opportunity laws
D) Informal networks
E) All of the above
Q4) Mentoring relationships
Q5) Glass walls
Q6) Informal networks
Q7) Affirmative action policies
Q8) Lilly Ledbetter:
Q9) Maternal wall
Q10) Glass ceilings
Q11) Equal opportunity laws Page 13
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Chapter 11: Gendered Media
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Q1) Why is the concept of pathologizing the human body problematic?
A) It is based on speculation and opinion, not data or facts.
B) It makes us think natural bodily processes are something to correct or stop.
C) It simply exists to sell us products.
D) It only focuses on women.
E) It is not problematic.
Q2) Cyberbullying has real,sometimes fatal consequences for its victims.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss messages rap and/or gangsta rap music contains about men and women.Do the media influence consumers? Finally,do you agree with Al Sharpton's request to the FCC to ban rappers who disrespect women? Why or why not?
Q4) Agenda-setting
Q5) The author of your textbook argues that television programs and movies such as The Good Wife,Law and Order,The Closer,Hunger Games,and Brave may appear to challenge conventional norms of femininity when in fact they reinforce those norms.Review the author's arguments and indicate whether you agree or disagree.You may reference specific examples from the programs/movies in support of your answer.
Q6) Product placement
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Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence
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Q1) Define informed consent.Do you think this is an appropriate definition of informed consent? Why or why not?
Q2) Sexual slavery is a thing of the past.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sexual assault
Q4) Femicide
Q5) State-funded programs to limit women's rights to reproductive choice never existed in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q6) "Corrective" rape
Q7) Children who grow up in families with one or more abusive adults are generally not affected by that violence.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Gender intimidation
Q9) Cycle of abuse
Q10) Rape culture
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Q1) Agenda-setting
Q2) Your Gendered Lives textbook states that the forms of influence you have on cultural views of gender include
A) individual choice, policy change, and political movements.
B) traitorous identity, teaching children, and empowering others.
C) addressing backlash, profeminist movements, and feminist movements.
D) direct power, agenda setting, and voice.
E) participating in backlash, personal choice, and agenda setting.
Q3) Which of the following is true about taking voice and enacting change?
A) Change comes primarily through the use of direct power - making people do what they would not do on their own.
B) The only people with the ability to engage in agenda setting have formal power, such as newspaper editors and television producers.
C) Taking voice and enacting change are processes.
D) The responsibility for taking voice and enacting change around gender norms rests primarily with men.
E) The responsibility for taking voice and enacting change around gender norms rests primarily with women.
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