Psych of Gender Exam 1 pt. 3

Schemas are general knowledge we all have

The DSM categorized intersex conditions as Disorders of Sex Development (DSD)

Who is more utilitarianism?

Sex drive is influenced by social & cultural factors

What is the cause of intersex conditions?

Which of the following is NOT an example of phenotypical sex?

Parents who abuse/kill their children is higher among stepparents than biological

Twin studies found 4 genetic variants; sexual behavior was complex; gene variants cannot predict sexual orientation

Men and women have equal sized brains

Stereotypes are organized expectations about a group

Men's testosterone decreases after watching a team they support lose

Who adheres to deontology more?

7.5x more homicides are committed by men

What is the agreement between physiological and psychological sexual arousal?

What is the idea that the environment influences how and when genes are expressed?

What is the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population due to genetic variation between indviiduals?

Concentration of white matter is higher on 1 side whereas in women it is balanced

Aggression is influenced by situational variables

Which of the following is NOT one of the big 5 attributes where women score higher than men?

What is the ability to accurately infer another person's thoughts or feelings?

What were the results of the empathy study?

Priming the construct of empathy or raising concerns about performance enhances empathic accuracy in women but not men

CAH is genetic AND most common intersex condition?

Women are at greatest risk for being murdered

What has more evidence to support cause of sexual orientation?

In the "ignore your feelings" study, who is more likely to participate in immoral acts?

In the bogus pipeline study, researchers tested number of sexual partners & age of first sexual intercourse

Women are more likely to identify intentionally & realize discomfort

Sex differences are more minimal in situations of low/high emotional arousal

What situations increase testosterone?

Self-report measures & objective measures (parent/teacher report) don't vary in measuring empathy

In video games, having a male avatar makes play more aggressive across both genders

Sex-differences in agression according to evo psych emerges late in life

Ultimate Frisbee study: higher ratio of other-sex to same-sex people watching increased testosterone from before game

How many people are intersex?

What do meta-analytic reviews of aggression show?

Monozygotic twins share 50% of their genes; Dizygotic twins share 100% of their genes

Cognitive processes are the basis of utilitarianism

Big 5: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism

Conscious control is a _____ measure

Risk-taking behavior peaks during puberty when male hormones kick in

Parents do not expect CAH child to exhibit more masculine behavior

CAH implications on spatial skills:

Play behavior is unaffected by boys with CAH

What is the problem with demand characteristics?

What orienation is concerned with feelings, responsibilities to others, and effect one’s behavior has on relationships

Which of the following are NOT reasons why women have more erotic plasticity than men?

Men spend less effort than females on mental rotation task

Emotional arousal generated by a situation is situational variable

Part of the brain that connects the two hemispheres and made from white matter?

What is the correct pairing for how men and women complete the mental rotation task?

Study of empathy: 4-17 y/o given explicit empathy test and watch a video (hurting hand). What are the measurements?

Exposing people to biological explanations increases endorsement of sex stereotypes

Girls with CAH are born with ambiguous genitalia

What orientaiton is concerned with rights, rules, and standards of justice?

Affective processes are the basis of deontology

Which of the following is NOT a possible explanation for CAH linked to spatial skills, social beahvior, & homosexuality?

Twin study theory:similar behavior btwn identical twins compared to fraternal twins bc environment is same, genes differ

Who is most likely to commit murders?

Why does aggression peak in young adulthood in boys?

When empathy is measured indirectly/physiologically, advantages are clear in sex differences

More men are bisexual compared to women

Attitudes towards bisexuality has relaxed and become more flexible towards labels

Which of the following was NOT one of the results of the bogus pipeline study?

There are sex differences in empathic accuracy

What is the idea that categories of male and female are distinct, nonoverlapping, & fixed?

What do longitudinal studies of aggression show?

Language to the left; imagination/emotions/face recognition to the right

What were the three conditions in Alexander & Fisher's study?

What disorder results from malfunction in the adrenal glad & prenatal exposure to high male hormones & low cortisol?

What idea reflects a morality based on whether an action is consistent with one’s moral norms

Which orienation has a larger sex difference?

Women are more likely than men to own guns

Number of people reporting same-sex relationships has doubled in last 20 years

Why are young wives more likely to be murdered?

Who less less likely to regulate their emotions and experience arousal more intensely

Women’s physiological response to erotic stimuli is closely related to sexual orientation as men

CAH implications for social behavior:

There are significant differneces between brains of gay and heterosexual men

Females are more easily aroused than males

What idea believes morality is based on consequences of an action?

What are the sex differences in sexual behavior according to evolutionary psychology?

Desensitization is the reaason there are no gender differences in neuroimaging overtime in the empathy test

Women score higher on care & justice orientation reactions compared to men

Analytic strategies take more time that holistic strategies

What is found in the study of married men and homicide rates?

What is the idea that women's sexual behavior is more variable than men's?

Majority of homicides within families occurs between spouces who are genetically related

Intersex conditions: condition where some inconsistency between individual’s chromosomal sex and phenotypical sex

Brains of gay men are more like brains of heterosexual women than heterosexual men when processing emotions