Women's Mental Health Final Exam Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Aristotle would have been considered a feminist. - ✔️✔️False
Assume that there is a common stereotype that women are better at calming crying
babies. If I'm female and I'm currently conscious of the fact that I am a woman, I will be
_______ effective at calming a crying baby. This is an example of a ________. -
✔️✔️more; stereotype threat
A person who believes that Republicans are more corrupt than Democrats will have a
tendency to only notice examples of corrupt Republicans, and to forget about examples
of corrupt Democrats. This is due to the ________. - ✔️✔️confirmation bias
The phrase, "ensuring that adequate workmanship standards and training for electronic
hardware are available to NASA, its suppliers, and the aerospace community," from
nasa.gov contains an example of: - ✔️✔️the androcentric generic.
The countries with the greatest amount of gender equality in the world still only have
Parliaments with percentages of female members that are in the 30s and 40s. - ✔️✔️True
Which category of persons is considered least pleasant? - ✔️✔️women who are feminists
Though it is true that women are represented in a biased way in the media, research
suggests that this bias has little or no effect on individuals' attitudes. - ✔️✔️False
About 2/3 of ________ are male. - ✔️✔️Clip-art images
My drive to win any game I play would be an example of ________. - ✔️✔️Agency
Two people, a man and a woman, are each carrying three moderately heavy bags. A
third person offers to carry one of the bags for the woman, but not for the man. What
might be happening here? - ✔️✔️benevolent sexism.
The realization that "I am a boy" or "I am a girl" is called: - ✔️✔️gender identity.
A girl learns to play dress-up primarily through what mechanism? - ✔️✔️the social
learning approach
The preference to play with children of the same gender begins to diminish at what
age? - ✔️✔️early adolescence
In the United States, expectant parents tend to prefer to have a boy instead of a girl. -
✔️✔️False
Baby girls tend to be viewed as weaker and more feminine, even though there is no
objectively measurable difference between baby girls and boys in these areas. -
✔️✔️True
As early as age ______, kids can tell the difference between females and males. - ✔️✔️6
months
Girls in children's books tend to: - ✔️✔️need more help
A child would be expected to be able to accurately explain the biological differences
between males and females by age: - ✔️✔️seven
A teacher is likely to have lower academic expectations for a girl who is ______. -
✔️✔️Black
In American culture, stereotypes about males are stronger than stereotypes about
females, but this is not true across most other cultures. - ✔️✔️False
An adolescent would be most likely to agree with her parents about: - ✔️✔️which party's
presidential candidate to support
If you wanted to predict a female adolescent's level of self-worth, the one variable that
would give you the best chance of predicting it correctly would be: - ✔️✔️her physical
attractiveness
More women than men earn PhD degrees each year - ✔️✔️True
The average romance during adolescence lasts - ✔️✔️four months
Research clearly shows that girls' friendships during adolescence tend to be more
intimate than boys' friendships. - ✔️✔️False
"My significant other is such a great listener!" This quote would be more likely to come
from a teenage: - ✔️✔️girl
Between ages 17 to 19, teenage girls' self esteem tends to be ______ that of boys of
the same age. - ✔️✔️lower than
Most adolescent lesbians are ______ their sexual orientation. - ✔️✔️happy about
It is more likely that a boy will choose to be a daycare worker than it is that a girl will
choose to be a construction worker. - ✔️✔️False
You are researching who gets more speeding tickets, women or men. You are studying
a ________ variable. - ✔️✔️subject
You are studying speeding tickets again. This time you want to find out if it is more likely
that a ticket (versus just a warning) will be issued to a woman driver or a man driver
after the officer has pulled him or her over. You are studying a ________ variable. -
✔️✔️stimulus
I bring a bowl of chicken soup to my roommate who is sick in bed.
I feel sad because my sick roommate is missing a concert tonight.
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