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Cognitive Abilities and Gender
Influence on Gender Stereotypes
Research on Gender Stereotypes
Vocabulary
Potpourri
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A person who enjoys accomplishing tasks very competently is high in
What is achievement motivation?
100
This does does not have a consistent effect on North American gender stereotypes
What is ethnic background? pg 52
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Your textbook describes research on women in the media has demonstrated this
What is men are much more likely than women to provide the voice-overs for advertisements?
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These refer to beliefs about females’ and males’ characteristics
gender stereotypes pg 36
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A friend believes that women are not aggressive enough to be good politicians. This belief is an example of what?
What are affirmative action laws? Pg 36-37
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This is the cognitive area where gender differences are the largest
What is spatial ability?
200
Based on the information in Chapter 2 about attitudes towards women’s competence, this type of evaluation is most likely to show devaluation of women
What is when a man is evaluating a woman’s performance in a traditionally masculine area pg 55
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According to the textbook, studies of stereotypes demonstrate that men tend to have more of these kind of stereotypes than women do.
What is traditional? pg 52
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Suppose that you know an individual who refused to hire a woman for a job—simply on the basis of her gender. This would be an example of what?
What is discrimination? pg 37
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Suppose that a high school student says, “I don’t know why, but I just don’t like old ladies.” This comment is an example of
What is prejudice? pg 37
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In her spare time, Daniella likes to work on crossword puzzles, simply because she enjoys these puzzles. Daniella’s motivation on these crossword puzzles can be labeled as this
What is intrinsic motivation?
300
Nosek and his coauthors used this to measure people’s gender stereotypes. Their research showed that people have strong implicit gender stereotypes because they responded relatively quickly when the pairings were consistent with stereotypes (e.g., males were paired with math); they responded slowly when the pairings were inconsistent (e.g. females were paired with math).
What is the Implicit Association Test? pg 54
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A study by Briere and Lanktree was described in Chapter 2. This study compared students’ reactions to either a neutral or a masculine generic version of a description about psychologists. This study demonstrated this
What is psychology was viewed as being a less attractive career for women when the masculine generic was used?
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According to Glick and Fiske’s Ambivalent Sexism Inventory If people are on a crowded bus, a man should offer his seat to a woman
What is benevolent sexism?
300
This is a major problem with masculine generic terms?
What is not really being gender neutral? pg 41
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No substantial gender differences have been found on this part of the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT)
What is the critical reading portion of the test?
400
People are particularly likely to be biased if they have little information about this
What is someone’s qualifications? pg 56
400
Your text describes in some detail a study by Gastil in which participants reported the mental images evoked by sentences. The primary finding from this research was this
What is masculine generic terms produced more thoughts about males than did gender-neutral terms? pg 42
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The statement below is an example of what "Women are too sensitive, and they misinterpret many innocent comments."
What is hostile sexism?
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The female member of a pair of words often has more of this connotation than the male member of the pair.
What is negative? pg 41
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Suppose you read a psychology article, and the introduction informs you that the article will take a box-score approach to reviewing the research on some aspect of gender comparisons. You would expect that the authors of the article will decide whether the overall difference is large, based on this
What is a tally of the outcomes of many previous studies?
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Suppose that you are participating in a study about word associations conducted by a team of researchers. You know that the study has something to do with ideas about gender, but the researchers never actually ask you to rate men and women. This study is probably testing this
What are implicit gender stereotypes?
500
Chapter 2 discussed a study by Niemann and her colleagues that focused on North American college students’ stereotypes about men and women from different ethnic groups. Based on this study, we can conclude this
What is stereotypes about men and women often depend upon the target’s ethnic group? pg 52
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People demonstrate this if they show high hostile sexism and high benevolent sexism.
What is ambivalent sexism?
500
This philosopher wrote about women in a way that would be most admired by feminists today
Who is John Stuart Mill? pg 39