Social Psychology of Gender Practice Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the social psychological processes underlying gender identity, roles, and relations in contemporary society. Students examine how gender is constructed, perceived, and enacted through socialization, stereotypes, prejudice, and institutional structures. Topics include the influence of culture and media on gender norms, intersectionality with race, class, and sexuality, and the impact of gender dynamics in personal relationships and the workplace. The course also considers efforts toward gender equity, examining psychological research on bias, discrimination, and strategies for promoting social change. Through discussion, research analysis, and experiential activities, students develop a nuanced understanding of how gender shapes individual experiences and broader social systems.
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Gendered Lives 10th Edition by Julia T. Wood
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Chapter 1: The Study of Communication, Gender, and Culture
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Q1) The Industrial Revolution led to the redefinition of masculinity and femininity.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The term patriarchy literally means ____.
A) oppression of females.
B) from male standpoint.
C) rule by the fathers.
D) government by men.
E) all of the above.
Answer: C
Q3) Sex
Answer: Sex is an individual quality determined by biology (chromosomes and hormones).Sex is biological; gender is socially constructed.Sex is innate; gender is learned.Sex is unchanging,or stable (possible exception-sex change surgery.)
Q4) Society,family,and friends teach us what it means to be male and female.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development
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Q1) Social learning theory suggests that children actively seek to perform their gender correctly.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) According to standpoint theory,all perspectives on social life are equally insightful.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) Men and women have hormonal cycles that can affect their behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Gender schema
Answer: An internal framework for categorizing perceptions and behaviors.Children begin to develop a gender schema as early as age two and use it to organize their understanding about appropriate behaviors for boys,girls,men and women.
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Chapter 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Genderwomens
Movements in America
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Q1) Cultural feminist ideology
Answer: This feminist ideology asserts that women and men are essentially different and should have different rights,roles,and opportunities.Separatism is an example of a movement predicated on this philosophy.
Q2) According to Susan Faludi,antifeminist movements,the backlash against feminism,have two primary claims.Identify them and explain how they are contradictory. Answer: Regardless of their specific movement,antifeminists tend to be grounded in two major claims.First,they say that feminism is the root of women's problems because feminism has encouraged women to be so independent that families and personal happiness have been sacrificed.Second,they claim that women have never been as privileged as they are right now,and since all the equality battles have been won,there is no need for feminism.The second claim clearly contradicts the first since the first suggests that women's lives are in ruins and the second suggests their lives are wonderful.
Q3) "Ain't I a Woman?"
Answer: Speech given by Sojourner Truth during the First Wave of U.S.feminism.Truth called attention to liberal feminism's focus on white women and neglect of distinct discrimination faced by Black women.
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Chapter 4: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gendermens
Movements in America
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Q1) According to the principles of the ____ movement,men who condone,encourage,or ignore violence are just as guilty as those who act violently.
A) NOMAS
B) Profeminist
C) White Ribbon Campaign
D) Mentors in Violence Prevention
E) Mythopoetic men
Q2) Which of the following is true of Promise Keepers?
A) They believe that men are the leaders of their families.
B) Their philosophy is based in evangelical Christianity.
C) They have been criticized for their stance on homosexuality.
D) A number of women say their marriages have improved since their husbands joined the movement.
E) All of the above.
Q3) Montreal Massacre
Q4) The Promise Keepers developed in response to a horrific act of violence against women that took place in Montreal (sometimes referred to as the Montreal Massacre).
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Gendered Verbal Communication
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Q1) Research indicates that androgynous individuals tend to be less successful both personally and professionally.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One of the connections between language and gender identified in your textbook is that language allows self-reflection.What implications does this insight have for individuals' language use?
Q3) There are several common communication problems that may occur when people from different gendered speech communities interact.List and describe 3 of them.
Q4) Research has shown people think male generic language includes men and women.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Speech community
Q6) Tag question
Q7) Spotlighting
Q8) 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.
Q9) Male generic language
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Chapter 6: Gendered Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) 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
Q2) Responsiveness
Q3) Artifacts can be a tool to challenge traditional notions of masculinity and femininity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Men are more likely than women to use eye contact to assert themselves.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Women tend to perceive touch from men as more threatening and invasive than men do.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Proxemics
Q7) Paralanguage
Q8) Kinesics
Q9) Territoriality
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Chapter 7: Becoming Gendered: The Early Years
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Q1) Ego boundaries
Q2) In the United States,a current theme in views of femininity is that women should establish closeness through talking with others in large relational networks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sons perceive their fathers as more affectionate than fathers perceive themselves. A)True
B)False
Q4) Identify the themes (or elements)of what it means to be masculine in the United States.As part of your explanation,be sure you provide brief,concrete examples for the five established themes and the recently emerging theme.Finally,discuss one way that parental/guardian communication about gender (as discussed in chapter 7 of Gendered Lives)may influence understanding of one or more of these themes.
Q5) Social Aggression
Q6) According to psychodynamic theory,how do most boys develop their gender identity?
Q7) "Anatomy is destiny"
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Chapter 8: Gendered Education Communication in Schools
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Q1) Elementary school classrooms are often unfriendly to boys,creating a poor foundation for success as boys continue their schooling
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is true about Title IX?
A) All U.S. schools must abide by the rules of Title IX.
B) Title IX has led to a decrease in athletic programs for men.
C) Title IX bans sex discrimination only in athletics.
D) Most American approve of Title IX.
E) Because of Title IX, male and female student athletes receive an equal number of scholarship dollars.
Q3) Invisible hand discrimination
Q4) With the passage of Title IX,female students were given access to athletic opportunities that were unknown to women of prior generations.Explain the basic framework of Title IX - what it promises and requires - and based on information found in Chapter 8,assess how well schools are implementing this law.
Q5) Title IX
Q6) The Morrill Act of 1862
Q7) Effortless perfection
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Chapter 9: Gendered Close Relationships
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Q1) One way to pose questions for this (and several other)chapters is to present them as advice column questions,with the students being the "experts" who respond.Another similar option is to present a question as if it is the student's friend asking him/her for advice since the friend knows the student is in a Gender and Communication class.Students tend to enjoy these questions and they give them the opportunity to integrate the material in ways that are applicable to their lives.It is often helpful to integrate material from several chapters in the questions.Some examples include:
Q2) Working women in heterosexual relationships typically engage in the majority of home and family care taking duties,which are frequently routine,repetitive,and constrained by deadlines.The term that this statement best defines is ____.
A) psychological responsibility
B) wonder woman syndrome
C) soccer mom
D) second-shift job
E) the Mommy Myth
Q3) Typically,men do not value friendships as much as women.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Gendered Organizational Communication
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Q1) Brown v.Board of Education led to what efforts to redress inequities in the United States?
A) equal opportunity laws
B) affirmative action
C) quotas
D) goals
E) sexual harassment laws
Q2) Lilly Ledbetter
Q3) The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Q4) Fortune 500 companies that have a strong record of promoting women to executive levels outperform other Fortune 500 companies.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ____ 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
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Chapter 11: Gendered Media
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Q1) Media coverage of female athletes and teams
A) is equal to media coverage of male athletes and teams.
B) often focuses on female athlete's appearance
C) is disproportionately focused on the WNBA
D) is disproportionately focused on sports that involve aggression
E) all of the above.
Q2) The author of your textbook argues that television programs and movies such as Sex and the City,Desperate Housewives,and Charlie's Angels 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.
Q3) Unlike other television genres,reality television portrays men in non-stereotypical ways.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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?
Q5) Immersive advertising
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Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence
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Q1) Federal laws are not required to provide the same protection for those who experience heterosexual harassment as for those who experience homosexual harassment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Define gendered violence,and discuss the ways in which society normalizes gendered violence.Your essay should identify 3-4 specific social foundations or institutions that allow or encourage both women and men to regard certain kinds of gendered violence as normal or acceptable.Include concrete examples.
Q3) What is the definition of rape in our state? What assumptions does this definition make?
Q4) Researchers have found that,in general,gendered violence is best explained by examining perpetrators' individual circumstances and history.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Rape culture
Q6) Cycle of abuse
Q7) Quid pro quo
Q8) Sexual assault
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Chapter 13: Epilogue-looking Backward, Looking Forward
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Q1) Throughout your Gendered Lives textbook and especially in the final chapter,Julia T.Wood encourages you to become an active and critical member of society.Explain what this means pertinent to individual and social views of gender.
Q2) Identify one issue you consider especially important in the ongoing cultural conversation about gender.Explain why you regard this issue as particularly pivotal now and how different resolutions of it might affect social life.
Q3) Voice
Q4) 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, gatekeeping/agenda setting, and voice
E) participating in backlash, personal choice, and agenda setting.
Q5) Drawing on all of your readings and class discussions,and especially on Chapters 3 and 4,define and discuss the sameness-difference (or sexual equality-sexual difference)debate.What are the positions in this debate and what are the social,legal,and personal implications of the different positions?
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Chapter 14: Introduction: Opening the Conversation
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Q1) The Industrial Revolution transformed social views of the essence of masculinity from ____ to ____.
A) courage to strength
B) physical strength to ability to earn an income
C) intelligence to physical strength
D) ambition to attractiveness
E) none of the above
Q2) 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 non-feminists.
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.
Q3) Explain what the author of Gendered Lives means when she writes that privilege and disadvantage are unearned.
Q4) Being feminist is in conflict with being feminine.
A)True
B)False
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