Exam 1: Introduction

Compare and contrast hostile sexism and benevolent sexism and give examples of each.

Gender differences and gender similarities are ______.

Describe one criticism of second-wave feminism.

The Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by both the House and the Senate in 1972.

Ensuring both male and female researchers collect data is an example of ______.

A researcher completes a study and finds that on average, men scored higher on an algebra test than the women. His interpretation is that men are better at math than women. This interpretation was based on the female deficit model.

______ is the term for the belief that women should be honored, put on a pedestal, and viewed as pure beings who should be protected.

Professor Garcia is conducting research on conceptualization of femininity among African American women, Latinx women, Asian American women, Native American women, and White women. Professor Garcia is applying an approach called _______.

"Feminist" can be defined as ______.

Feminist research devotes specific research attention to the special concerns of women and members of marginalized groups.

Define feminist.

A Freudian researcher sets out to collect data to document the existence of penis envy in women. This is an example of ______.

A researcher on gender differences finds that females estimate that they will get fewer points on a test than males estimate they will get. The researcher concludes that this indicates that women are lacking in self-confidence. This is an example of ______.

The ______ is a system of conceptualizing gender as having two distinct and opposing groups or kinds, male and female.

Both traditional psychologists and feminist psychologists view research as an interaction between a researcher and participant, shaped by cultural context.

"Feminist research" may be defined as ______.

The feminist goal of gender equality has not yet been met.

A research study that compares two or more groups of participants on their response to a treatment without randomly assigning the participants to the treatment conditions is considered______.

A male psychologist is interested in finding out whether there are gender differences in a certain personality characteristic. He administers a paper-and-pencil test of this characteristic to a group of male and female students and then checks statistically to find out whether there are gender differences. Which one of the following biases is likely to be present in that research?

Give an example of gender equality in one of the following spheres: education, politics, economics, and health.