Exam 5: Gender and Communication

Use of terms such as "girl" or "baby" to refer to women is an example of ______.

Mulac (2006) conducted a series of studies in which the speech of men and women is transcribed, masked as the identity of the speaker, and then presented to college students to see whether they can tell whether the speaker was male or female. If Tannen's hypothesis is correct, the task should be ______.

Explain why titles such as Mr., Miss, Mrs., and Ms. can be problematic.

Feminists have objected to a number of features of the English language. Explain what these features are and why feminists object to them. Then describe any empirical psychological studies that have been done that could be used as evidence to back the feminist position.

Sexist language and sexist attitudes go hand in hand.

Dovidio's experiment on gender differences in eye contact used various conditions that led to interesting results. In the control condition, men were more visually dominant, which meant ______.

What can you infer about Dovidio's research on visual dominance?

Ogletree et al. (2014) found that ______ was more strongly linked to emoticon usage than ______.

Research indicates that when a woman is speaking, ______ speech seems to work best when the audience is male and ______ speech seems to work best when the audience is female.

Men are more likely to use a(n) ______ posture and women are more likely to us a(n) ______ posture.

Using the word "police officer" rather than "policeman" is an example of ______.

Research on interpersonal distance indicates that there is the smallest distance between ______.

Differentiate between intrusive interruptions and supportive interruptions. Then, explain why it is not entirely accurate to say that men interrupt more than women do and that this indicates men's expression of dominance.

The gender difference in smiling is small, d = −.10.

Gender is constructed in social interactions and gender patterns depend heavily on social context.

Define the Whorfian hypothesis. What are the implications if this hypothesis is true? What would the Whorfian hypothesis predict about practices like the use of masculine generics on bias and inequality? Based on Hyde's research, does this apply to adults only or does it apply to children as well? What does this say about the importance of the language we use? What is one way we can deal with this issue?

Which of the following is a pattern of tentative speech, according to Lakoff?

What does the research say regarding sexist language in job descriptions? What implications does this create for a company that is wanting to become more diverse?

"I've felt that way, too," is an example of what type of speech?

Differentiate between natural gender languages, grammatical gender languages, and genderless languages. What does the research say about the connection between the type of gendered language and countries' societal gender equality?