Exam 2: Theoretical Perspectives on Gender

According to Gilligan, men focus on attachments between people and women focus on contracts between people.

The belief that women have special, unique qualities that differentiate them from men and that we should elevate and value those special qualities is referred to as ______.

Freud's concept of "immature superego" in women is similar to ______.

There are several different kinds of feminism.

Cognitive developmental theorists use the term ______ for the child's understanding that gender is a permanent, unchanging characteristic.

A female using one of her eggs and using her body to gestate her young is an example of ______.

The term for an approach that simultaneously considers multiple categories of identity, difference, and disadvantage is ______.

Results from a study by Benenson et al. (1998) indicated that mother-daughter pairs were indeed closer to each other (both physically and psychologically) than mother-son pairs. Whose theory does this support?

______ is the term for the study of the origin and methods of human knowledge.

Social-learning theories of gender-role acquisition stress the importance of ______.

The data support Buss's (1989) theory that a man will be more jealous if his female mate engages in sexual infidelity and a woman will be more jealous if her male mate engages in emotional infidelity.

In one experiment, 5- and 6-year-old children were shown pictures of children engaged in stereotype-consistent or stereotype-inconsistent activities. A week later, their memory was tested and it was found that they distorted the information in the stereotype-inconsistent pictures to make them stereotype-consistent. This study is cited as evidence for ______.

Which theorist extended the psychoanalytic view of the psychology of women?

According to social learning theory, children's imitation is partly motivated by the power of authority figures.

Gisele believes in promoting a more inclusive and intersectional feminist perspective. She may identify most with ______.

According to evolutionary psychology, the social behavior of female infanticide would be maladaptive, decreasing one's reproductive fitness.

A man being allowed and encouraged to be promiscuous, whereas a woman is punished for engaging in promiscuous sex is an example of ______.

Explain why the female orgasm evolved in humans according to sociobiologists.

The concept of ______ is key to feminist analysis.

There is currently no evidence that parents treat boys and girls differently and that they differentially reward some behaviors in boys and girls.