Gender and Communication Final Test Solutions
Course Introduction
Gender and Communication explores the intricate ways in which gender influences, shapes, and is shaped by communication practices in various cultural, social, and media contexts. Students will examine theories of gender, language, and communication, analyzing how gender identities are constructed, maintained, and challenged through verbal and nonverbal interaction. The course covers topics such as gendered language patterns, media representation, intersectionality, workplace communication, and power dynamics, encouraging critical reflection on stereotypes, socialization, and the role of communication in promoting gender equity. Through readings, discussions, and case studies, students develop skills to recognize, interpret, and address gender-related communication issues in both personal and professional settings.
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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) Yan Bing and Dianna are college students discussing how they each define "cheating" in a romantic relationship.Yan Bing considers flirting during an IM conversation cheating, but Dianna thinks cheating only involves physical contact.Later,they continue the discussion with friends over dinner.This scenario best describes which of the following?
A) Communication is a dynamic and contextual.
B) Communication is gendered.
C) Yan Bing and Dianna are exhibiting feminine styles of communication.
D) Content level of meaning and relationship level of meaning are not the same thing.
E) All of the above
Answer: A
Q2) The Industrial Revolution led to the redefinition of masculinity and femininity. A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) Gender identity is the same thing as one's biological sex. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development
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Q1) The best way to explain sex and gender is through interpersonal and cultural theories.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Performative theory says that gender is not a thing we have,but is instead a thing we do.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following is generally true?
A) Most women use only the right lobe of their brain.
B) Most men use only the left lobe of their brain.
C) Most men's brains are more highly integrated than most women's brains.
D) A and B
E) None of the above
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Women
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Q1) Women won the right to vote in 1920 in part because of the efforts of the members of the ______________ movement,a group that asserted women's moral superiority.
A) Seneca Falls Convention
B) Revalorists
C) Cult of Domesticity
D) Women's Suffrage Coalition
E) National Organization for Women
Answer: C
Q2) This feminist movement believes the key to understanding gender and identity is best understood by examining the intersection of key elements of identity like gender,race-ethnicity,sexual orientation,and economic class.This best describes which branch of feminism?
A) lesbian feminism
B) revalorism
C) womanism
D) multiracial feminism
E) none of the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Men
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Q1) Mythopoetic men
Q2) Masculinist movements assert that men suffer from discrimination and that men need to reclaim their rightful status as men.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Football coach Joe Ehrmann,who stresses to his team the value of building relationships,loving one another,and accepting love,is enacting a traitorous identity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Bystander behavior
Q5) 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.
Q6) Traitorous identity
Q7) Men's rights activist
Q8) Mentors in Violence Prevention
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Chapter 5: Gendered Verbal Communication
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Q1) The extent to which we speak in a masculine or a feminine style varies depending on context and other factors.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Point of the Story
Q3) Children's play is very important in how they become socialized into speech communities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In general,feminine speech community members follow this/these communication practice(s):
A) Language is used to show one's status.
B) Communication is used as primary way to establish and maintain relationships.
C) Direct, abstract speech is used frequently.
D) Language tends to be used to accomplish an instrumental task.
E) Language is used to maintain control of the conversation.
Q5) Speech community
Q6) There are several common communication problems that may occur when people from different gendered speech communities interact.List and describe 3 of them.
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Chapter 6: Gendered Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Artifacts
Q2) Responsiveness
Q3) Children's toys are becoming increasingly gender-neutral; many toy stores and toy catalogs no longer separate "toys for girls" and "toys for boys."
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following statements is true about body image?
A) In general, men and boys are more satisfied with the way they look than are women and girls.
B) Men increasingly access noninvasive cosmetic treatments such as Botox and Dysport injections.
C) Men are increasingly seeking to meet body ideals by exercising and taking fitness supplements.
D) Binge eating seems to be increasing among men.
E) All of the above.
Q5) Women are generally better at reading anger in the faces of others than are men.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Kinesics
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Chapter 7: Becoming Gendered: The Early Years
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Q1) Daniel works as a barista at a small coffee house in New York City.He loves his job and his customers love him.He has a very small apartment that he shares with a roommate. His salary allows him to eat at restaurants a few times a month and to visit his sister in another state a couple of times a year.Daniel is mostly satisfied with his life.However, he feels a lot of pressure from his parents,especially his father,to go out and find a job in his college major of economics.Daniel's father frequently derides the coffee house job and the size of Daniel's apartment.What theme of masculinity is described here?
A) Don't be female.
B) Be successful.
C) Be aggressive.
D) Be sexual.
E) Be self-reliant.
Q2) According to psychoanalytic theory,families play a critical role in the formation of gender identity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Define ego boundaries and explain how they typically develop in masculine and feminine people,noting both similarities and differences in development.
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Chapter 8: Gendered Education: Communication in Schools
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Q1) Girls are more likely than boys to go to college.
A)True
B)False
Q2) College males report studying more than college females do.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Same-sex schools provide some benefits that are appealing to many students,parents,and educators.However,same-sex schools present issues for trans-people that nongender queer people do not confront.Note three potential problems that trans-people face at same-sex schools that others do not.Then,propose a potential solution to one of those problems.
Q4) People practicing invisible hand discrimination truly believe they are acting in an unbiased manner.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe how gender contributes to how women faculty members are expected to serve the universities for which they work.
Q6) Effortless perfection
Q7) Gender-stereotyped curricula
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Chapter 9: Gendered Close Relationships
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Q1) Which of the following is true about nonromantic friendships between men and women?
A) For many women, a primary benefit of friendships with men is that they are emotionally closer than their friendships with women.
B) For many men, a primary benefit of friendships with women is that they are lighter and more fun than their friendships with men.
C) In friendships between women and men, men typically talk more and get more attention than they offer.
D) Nonromantic friendships between women and men have the advantage of being free from sexual tension.
E) Both women and men tend to seek out men in times of stress.
Q2) Second shift
Q3) Gay and lesbian relationships tend to follow a best-friend model with the additional dimensions of sexuality and romance.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Psychological responsibility
Q5) The Mommy Myth
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Chapter 10: Gendered Organizational Communication
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Q1) The assumption that careers must follow linear,full-time patterns
A) is based on work-patterns of previous eras that assumed a typical employee was a male worker with a stay-at-home wife.
B) leads many women to choose to forego having families.
C) negatively affects both men's and women's career trajectories.
D) correctly assumes that workers are most productive and successful when they remain invested in and committed to a job for a long period of time and without interruption.
E) has been rejected by most contemporary major corporations.
Q2) Glass escalator
Q3) 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?
Q4) Glass walls
Q5) How might gendered stereotypes contribute to more subtle forms of discrimination practiced in organizations today? Explain two stereotypes each for women and for men.Provide an example of how they might be enacted in organizational life.How does each of these limit opportunities?
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Chapter 11: Gendered Media
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Q1) Pathologizing the human body
Q2) Which of the following is true about the use of social media for activism?
A) It is rarely effective.
B) Women are more likely than men to use social media for activism.
C) In 2012, activists were able to effectively pressure the Susan G. Komen foundation to change their decision to defund Planned Parenthood.
D) Social media activism is expensive and difficult to implement.
E) All of the above.
Q3) Discuss three ways in which news media,including cable and network television news,magazines,and newspapers,promote stereotypical views of women and femininity and provide concrete examples to support your points.
Q4) Advertisements ______ than other media.
A) contain less gendered messages
B) are less pervasive
C) are less effective
D) contain more gendered messages
E) are often more powerful
Q5) Cyberbullying
Q6) Third person effect
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Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence
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Q1) Genital mutilation does not occur in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Sexual slavery is a thing of the past.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Pornography
Q4) What is rape culture? How does it affect victims of sexual assault? What should be done to eradicate this problem in our culture?
Q5) Which of the following is NOT true about rape?
A) Rape is motivated primarily by sexual desire.
B) Rape is common on college campuses.
C) A husband can rape his wife.
D) Men and women can be victims of rape.
E) The majority of rape victims do not report and seek to prosecute their rapes.
Q6) What is reproductive violence? What are some specific examples of reproductive violence in action?
Q7) Intimate partner violence typically follows a cyclical pattern.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Epilogue: Looking Backward,
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Q1) "Salad bowl" metaphor
Q2) Which of the following are metaphors that seek to recognize diversity in the United States without obscuring difference?
A) a melting pot
B) a cake mix
C) a Venn diagram
D) a quilt
E) all of the above
Q3) Voice
Q4) Making time to think about issues raised in this book is part of developing your voice.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Agenda-setting is an important way to influence cultural views of gender.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Agenda-setting
Q7) Differences are valuable and desirable.
A)True
B)False
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