An Introduction To Psychology, International Edition 4th Edition By Jeffrey – Test Bank

CHAPTER 11
Sexuality and Gender
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. When Olivia’s baby is born, the doctor says, “It’s a girl.” Which of the following is the doctor describing?
a) The baby’s gender role
b) The baby’s sex
c) The baby’s sex role
d) The baby’s gender identity
e) The baby’s gender
ANS: b TOP: MOD: 11.1 REF: Gender Identity, Gender Roles and Gender Differences
MSC: applied OBJ: 1-Define the terms gender identity and gender roles and explain how they are different. KEY: Define/Describe, Apply
2. Gender is to ___________ as sex is to __________.
a) XX; XY
b) genetic; biological
c) biological; genetic
d) biological; psychosocial
e) psychosocial; biological
ANS: e TOP: MOD: 11.1 REF: Gender Identity, Gender Roles and Gender Differences
MSC: conceptual OBJ: 1-Define the terms gender identity and gender roles and explain how they are different. KEY: Evaluate/Explain
3. In a particular society, men are expected to provide protection and monetary support, whereas women are expected to tend to the home and children. What are these expectations describing for females and males in the society?
a) Gender identities
b) Gender roles
c) Gender rules
d) Sex roles
e) Sex rules
ANS: b TOP: MOD: 11.1 REF: Gender Identity, Gender Roles and Gender Differences
MSC: applied OBJ: 1-Define the terms gender identity and gender roles and explain how they are different. KEY: Define/Describe, Apply
4. The psychological experience of being female or male is called one’s:
a) gender role.
b) gender awareness.
c) gender.
d) gender identity.
e) sex.
ANS: d TOP: MOD: 11.1 REF: Gender Identity, Gender Roles and Gender Differences
MSC: factual OBJ: 1-Define the terms gender identity and gender roles and explain how they are different. KEY: Define/Describe
5. In many societies, men are expected to be more aggressive and women are expected to be more nurturing. These expectations describe differences in:
a) gender.
b) sex.
c) gender identity.
d) gender roles.
e) gender assignment.
ANS: d TOP: MOD: 11.1 REF: Gender Identity, Gender Roles and Gender Differences
MSC: applied OBJ: 1-Define the terms gender identity and gender roles and explain how they are different. KEY: Define/Describe, Apply
6. Four-year-old Pedro knows that he is male. Pedro’s psychological experiences of being a male are best described as his:
a) gender.
b) gender role.
c) gender identity.
d) gender congruence.
e) gender stereotype.
ANS: c TOP: MOD: 11.1 REF: Gender Identity, Gender Roles and Gender Differences
MSC: applied OBJ: 1-Define the terms gender identity and gender roles and explain how they are different. KEY: Define/Describe, Apply NOT: WWW
7. By what age is William likely to have acquired a firm sense of being male?
a) At birth
b) By one year of age
c) By three years of age
d) By seven years of age
e) By puberty
ANS: c TOP: MOD: 11.1 REF: Gender Identity, Gender Roles and Gender Differences
MSC: applied KEY: Apply, Evaluate/Explain
8. Regarding the development of gender identity, which of the following statements is TRUE?
a) Chromosomal patterns determine one’s gender identity, but not necessarily one’s biological sex.
b) Gender identity is often not consistent with one’s chromosomal sex.
c) Most scientists believe that gender identity involves a complex interaction between nature and nurture.
d) It is impossible to have the gender identity of one gender and the chromosomal sex and sexual organs of the other gender.
e) Gender identity is fully determined before birth.
ANS: c TOP: MOD: 11.1 REF: Gender Identity, Gender Roles and Gender Differences
MSC: factual OBJ: 1-Define the terms gender identity and gender roles and explain how they are different. KEY: Evaluate/Explain
9. The fact that individuals born with ambiguous genital structures develop a gender identity consistent with the way in which they are raised (regardless of genetic sex) suggests that:
a) gender identity is not completely biologically determined.
b) gender identity remains malleable until puberty.
c) gender identity is established at birth.
d) biology has the strongest influence on gender identity.
e) nature triumphs over nurture.
ANS: a TOP: MOD: 11.1 REF: Gender Identity, Gender Roles and Gender Differences
MSC: conceptual OBJ: 1-Define the terms gender identity and gender roles and explain how they are different. KEY: Define/Describe
10. Edward has a transgender identity, which means that:
a) he represents a rare form of homosexuality.
b) he has mixed genital structures.
c) his sex and gender identity are in conflict.
d) his gender identity is ambiguous.
e) he likes to dress in women’s clothes.
ANS: c TOP: MOD: 11.1 REF: Gender Identity, Gender Roles and Gender Differences
MSC: applied OBJ: 2-Define transsexualism and evaluate current understandings of its development.
KEY: Define/Describe, Apply NOT: WWW