Exam 1 Ch.2

Question 1

Information is collected via one of our major senses

Answer 1

Empiricism

Question 2

Usually in thoughts, feelings, or behaviors

Answer 2

Data

Question 3

Statements about these observations or data

Answer 3

Facts

Question 4

Collection of facts

Answer 4

Theory

Question 5

For a theory to be scientific it must be…

Answer 5

falsifiable

Question 6

A prediction that an outcome will occur under a specific set of conditions

Answer 6

Hypothesis

Question 7

Study the relation between two variables

Answer 7

Correlational Study

Question 8

Displaying both masculine and feminine traits

Answer 8

Androgyny

Question 9

Exhibiting gender-role characteristics that correspond with the other sex

Answer 9

cross sex-typed

Question 10

Tension that develops when the expectations that accompany one’s gender role have negative consequences for the individual

Answer 10

Gender-Role-Strain

Question 11

The strain that arises when we fail to live up to the gender role society has constructed

Answer 11

Self-Role-Discrepency Theory

Question 12

Exhibiting the gender role characteristics that correspond with our sex

Answer 12

Sex Typed

Question 13

People who believe that masculinity and femininity are categories constructed by society and that each society may have different definitions of masculinity and femininity

Answer 13

Social Constructionists

Question 14

Inherently dysfunctional personality characteristics that are fundamental to the gender roles instilled by society

Answer 14

Socialized dysfunctional characteristics theory

Question 15

Personality orientation characterized by a focus on the self to the exclusion of others

Answer 15

Unmitigated agency

Question 16

Personality orientation characterized by a focus on other to the exclusion of self

Answer 16

Unmitigated communion

Question 17

-1 and +1 are

Answer 17

perfect correlations

Question 18

The person manipulates on variable

Answer 18

Experimental method

Question 19

Manipulated variable

Answer 19

Independent Variable

Question 20

Affected variable

Answer 20

Dependent variable

Question 21

Random Selection vs. Random Assignment

Answer 21

One is equal chances of being selected on is assigned and assigned is experimental and selected is correlational

Question 22

Subject Variable

Answer 22

Sex, cannot be changed, not a true experiment

Question 23

How do we make sex experimental?

Answer 23

We use it as a stimulus or target variable meaning that it is a characteristic to which people respond

Question 24

High internal and low external

Answer 24

experiment

Question 25

When a single time point is used

Answer 25

Cross Sectional

Question 26

Measure independent variable at one time and dependent later

Answer 26

Longitudinal

Question 27

Cohort

Answer 27

people of same gen

Question 28

Most research in the area of sex comparisons ____ because sex is a ____ rather than a

Answer 28

is correlational, subject variable, target variable

Question 29

Field experiments maximize

Answer 29

External and Internal Validity

Question 30

Longitudinal studies help enhance the ___ validity of correlational research

Answer 30

internal