Exam 12: Gender Roles and Sexuality

Research supports all of the following EXCEPT

RuPaul has just come to realize that when a boy dresses like a girl, he does not actually become a girl. In cognitive-developmental theory, RuPaul appears to have just acquired

A gender _____ is an organized set of beliefs and expectations about males and females that impacts what types of information an individual will attend to and remember.

On a personality test, Burt scores very low on both the agentic and communal scales. As such, he is best classified as

Gender stability is defined as understanding that

One promising theory is that _____ influences during prenatal development are responsible for determining your sexual orientation.

At what age do infants first appear to demonstrate cross-modal associations concerning gender information by looking longer at a female face when a female voice is heard vs. when a male voice is heard?

The key element of gender-role norms is that within a society, they are viewed as

From the time they are born, twins Johnny (a boy) and Joannie (a girl) are treated differently. For example, whenever Johnny plays with a truck, his parents praise his behavior. Whenever Joannie shows an interest in a doll, her parents praise her actions. A social learning theorist would likely argue that this _____ will likely lead to distinct gender roles for Johnny and Joannie.

Which statement indicates that a child is in Kohlberg's initial basic gender identity stage of development?

The social-role hypothesis argues that there are no gender stereotypes.

The basic premise of gender-schema theory is that children actively seek objects and/or activities that

Gender _____ tends to occur around puberty, when hormonal changes magnify intolerance to deviation from gender-role expectations.

In general, young adolescents

Mr. and Mrs. Hill have two children, Jack and Jill. They make no bones about telling Jack that he should be an engineer, since men are good at math, and that Jill should be a nurse, since women are good at taking care of other people. Given the fact that male-female differences in math and nurturing are questionable, the Hill's message best reflects a(n)

A major difference between Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental theory and Martin and Halverson's gender-schema theory is that gender typing in the gender-schema theory

On which of the following point do most theories of gender-role development agree?

The theory that becoming parents pressures males to be more "masculine" and females to be more "feminine" is referred to as the

With regard to biological differentiation of the sexes, which is FALSE?

Based on research by Stoddart and Turiel, which two people would you expect to hold the most negative attitudes concerning the violation of gender roles (e.g., a boy wearing nail polish)?