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Test 3 Flashcards

1
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Who dies at a younger age?

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Males

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2
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What ages are men most likely to die?

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Adolescence and young adulthood

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3
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Who has the higher ratio at birth?

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Males

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4
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Who lives longer in the US?

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Women by 5 years on average

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5
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Why is the sex gap narrowing?

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Decrease heart disease and cancer mortality

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What is the leading cause of death?

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Coronary heart disease, cancer, and chronic lower respiratory disease

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7
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What do the leading causes of death have in common?

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All depend on lifestyle and behavioral factors

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8
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What disease has a higher mortality rate for women?

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Alzheimer’s Disease

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9
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Which gender is more likely to be a victim of homicide?

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Men

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10
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What are artifacts?

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Methodological variables that might lead to the appearance of sex difference even when differences do not exist

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11
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What are the two main artifacts in health?

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Socioeconomic Status and Physician Bias

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12
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Who believes in preventive health care more?

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Women

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13
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What are examples of preventive health care?

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Healthy eating, regular check-ups, following medicine instructions

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14
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Who smokes more?

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Men

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15
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Which gender does stop smoking programs work on more?

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Men

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16
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Who has a higher blood-alcohol level?

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Women

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17
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Who drinks more?

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Men after 25

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18
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Who binge drinks more?

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Men

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19
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Who seeks treatment for drugs more?

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Men

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20
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Who uses more drugs?

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Men

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21
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Who uses more pain-relieving meds?

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Women

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22
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Who uses Mary Jane more?

A

Men

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23
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Who has android obesity more?

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Men

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24
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What is android obesity?

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Belly Fat

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25
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Who has more gynoid obesity?

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Women

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26
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What is gynoid obesity?

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Fat around the hips

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27
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Who meets the aerobic guidelines more?

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Men

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28
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Who engages more in individual sports?

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Women

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29
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Who engages more in team sports?

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Men

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30
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Whose jobs have the worst health risks?

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Men; fix stuff and hazardous

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31
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Who has worse driving skills?

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Men; more risky behavior

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32
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Who wears a seatbelt more?

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Females

33
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What is the sick role hypothesis?

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Sex differences in medical care utilization are due to women’s greater tendency to adopt the sick role

34
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What is a sick role?

A

Labeling symptoms as illness and responding to it

35
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What is the nurturant role hypothesis?

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Women’s roles require them to attend to the needs of others, and taking care others interferes with taking care of oneself

36
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What is the best predictor of psychological well-being?

A

Agency

37
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What is an unmitigated agency?

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Reluctant to seek help, difficulties with emotional expression, and feelings of invulnerability

38
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What is unmitigated communion?

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Greater psychological distress, interpersonal stress, overly involved in taking care of others

39
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Who has more intensive support networks?

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Women; functional

40
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Who has more extensive support networks?

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Men; structural

41
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What is a main effect?

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Directly linked to a psychological state

42
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What is a buffering effect?

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Buffering against the negative effects of stressors

43
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What is interpersonal protection theory?

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Differences in social support across the marital statuses

44
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What is the effect of widowhood on men?

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Negative; greater loss of support, no outreach

45
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What is the Gender Tension Line?

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Point which people feel uncomfortable with further change

46
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What is intimate terrorism?

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Rooted in control, repetition of violence use of control, emotional abuse, minimizing

47
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What is violent resistance?

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Violent efforts on the part of the victim to resist control

48
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What is situational couple violence?

A

Occasional episodes of violent behavior precipitated by stressful events

49
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What was the marital exemption clause?

A

The forcible penetration of the body of a women, not the wife of the perpetrator

50
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What are some challenges in measuring the frequency of rape or sexual coercion?

A

Underreported, vague definitions, some don’t consider anal or oral sex rape

51
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What is the differential exposure hypothesis?

A

differences in the kinds of roles women and men possess explain sex differences in health

52
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What is the differential vulnerability hypothesis?

A

Roles have different effects on health for women and men

53
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Who is associated with better health because of paid jobs?

A

Males

54
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What is the role scarcity hypothesis?

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Multiple roles have a negative effect on health because time and resources are scarce and limited

55
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What is the role expansion hypothesis?

A

Benefits are to be gained from having diverse roles

56
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What is access discrimination?

A

Situation in which an individual is not offered a given job or is offered a lesser job because of some defining characteristic

57
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What is treatment discrimination?

A

Situation in which an individual receives a reduced salary or reduced opportunities for promotion compared to other individuals having the same job

58
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What is the glass ceiling?

A

Label applied to barriers to the advancement of women and minorities in organizations

59
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What is denial of disadvantages?

A

Condition in which women perceive that discrimination exists but deny that they personally are victims of it

60
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What is a quid pro quo?

A

One person offers work benefits or threatens work repercussions in exchange for sexual favors

61
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What is hostile environment sxual harassment?

A

Person is faced with a hostile, intimidating owrk environment

62
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What are the three levels of sexual harassment?

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  1. Gender Harassment
  2. Unwanted sexual attention
  3. Sexual coercion
63
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What are the effects of sexual harassment on job performance?

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Negative job outcomes, increased psychological distress, poorer physical health

64
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What is sex-role spillover theory?

A

Expectations about women’s and men’s roles carry over to the workplace when they are not appropriate or relevant

65
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What artifacts are there to depression?

A

Clinician bias, response bias, and manifestations

66
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What is clinician bias?

A

Interpret depression symptoms more in women, prescribe heart disease in males more instead

67
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What is response bias?

A

Men are less likely to report depression since it’s inconsistent with gender roles

68
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How is distress defined for women?

A

Guilt, body dissatisfaction, feelings of failure

69
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How is distress defined for men?

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Unfriendly, turn to alcohol

70
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What is differential item functioning?

A

Some items are more likely to be associated with a trait among men versus women

71
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What is learned helplessness?

A

sense of giving up because women perceive that nothing can be done to alter the situation

72
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Who uses tend and befriend?

A

Women

73
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Who uses fight or flight?

A

Men

74
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What is the role of unmitigated communion in depression?

A

External focus, self-neglect and overinvolvement in others’ problems

75
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What is gender intensification?

A

Gender roles and their associated norms become salient to females and males

76
Q

Who has more negative body images?

A

Teenage and adult females

77
Q

Who wants to gain weight and muscle more?

A

Men

78
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Who wants to lose weight more?

A

Women

79
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What is body objectification?

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Social and cultural forces that sexually objectify women, which lead women to continually monitor their bodies and evaluate themselves based on their appearances

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