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Gender and Society

This document contains a quiz with multiple choice questions about gender, sex, and Freudian psychology. It discusses topics like the biological and developmental explanations for gender differences in children's play, Freud's views on the Oedipus complex and penis envy, and definitions of terms like gender, sex, sexuality, and transgender from psychological and cultural perspectives. The questions cover subjects ranging from gender roles and social influences to chromosomes, reproductive anatomy, and gender identity.

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Gender and Society

This document contains a quiz with multiple choice questions about gender, sex, and Freudian psychology. It discusses topics like the biological and developmental explanations for gender differences in children's play, Freud's views on the Oedipus complex and penis envy, and definitions of terms like gender, sex, sexuality, and transgender from psychological and cultural perspectives. The questions cover subjects ranging from gender roles and social influences to chromosomes, reproductive anatomy, and gender identity.

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Prelim quiz 1/Prelim quiz 2/Prelim exam:

“Aside from age, children often self-segregate by


sex while playing in groups.”
This gender difference explanation is
____________________.
Answer: developmental
Girls engage in more
___________________________.
Answer: Child-care and touch
The usual gonads for Female are ovaries.
Answer: True
In Thailand, the “kathoey” or ladyboys are
individuals whose sex is male biologically but
identify themselves eventually as being women.
Answer: True
“Boys play with guns and cars more than girls do in
school.”
This is a cultural explanation of gender differences.
Answer: False
Traditionally, Gender is viewed as being male or
female.
Answer: True
In the WHO definition, the term, gender is similar
from society to society and cannot be changed.
Answer: False
“Girls engage in more (real and playful) grooming
than boys do.”
This is a developmental explanation of gender
differences.
Answer: True
The World Health Organization released a
definition of Gender in 2018 and it states that
“Gender refers to the biologically constructed
characteristics of women and men, such as genitals,
body parts, and built.”
Answer: False
XX chromosomes in Female is the usual sex
chromosomes.
Answer: True
“The Wodaabe tribe will have men wear make-up,
jewelry, and have beautiful attires to dance in front
of women during a special ritual to attract a
partner.”
This culture is from ______________.
Answer: Nigeria
Having allowed the marriage of two women, the
other party being identified as the “female
husband,” granted that the women are already
married to a man. This relationship does not involve
intercourse but exists for economic reasons.
This culture is from ____________.
Answer: Africa
Penis envy or the masculinity complex was at the
core of the female psyche in Freud’s psychology,
while castration fear was central in the man.
Answer: True
The development of sexual characteristics is
affected by sociological development through a
relationship with other people.
Answer: False
XY are not a usual chromosomes for Male.
Answer: False
Sex are the biological traits that societies use to
assign people into either male or female, whether it
be through genitalia.
Answer: True
In lay man’s term, the traditional meaning of gender
is “the thing between the legs” and/or the
psychological, emotional and sexual attraction
towards a member of a different sex.
Answer: True
Cis-gender describes people whose biological body
they were born into does not match their personal
gender identity.
Answer: False
Words such as “roles” and “relationships” are used
to signify that Gender does not only include the
biological characteristics of a person but also the
preference of an individual depending on the role
the individual view his/her gender.
Answer: True
Gender examines how society influences our
understanding and perception of differences
between masculinity and femininity is a concept
that describes how societies determine and manage
sex categories; the cultural meanings attached to
men and women’s roles; and how individuals
understand their identities not limited to one
gender positions.
Answer: True
Sex-different behavioral trends begin to appear
clearly in young children during a time when
_____________________ variation is limited, well
before puberty and major secondary gender
differences form.
Answer: Biological gender
Transgender people usually undergo a gender
transition that may involve changing their dress and
self-presentation.
Answer: True
The usual gonads for Female are testes.
Answer: False
Since the dawn of the new century, the view and
idea of gender have evolved in a contemporary
understanding of psychology, sociology, and culture
based on the human perception of sexual urges and
emotional attraction.
Answer: True
When people talk about the differences between
men and women they are often pertaining to
gender rather than sex.
Answer: False
“Boys start spending more time away from home
and from their mothers.”
This gender difference is a biological explanation.
Answer: False
Freud seemed to believe that complete breakdown
in women of the Oedipus complex was impossible,
since the two desires, possessing the penis of the
father and getting the child of the father, were
exceedingly difficult to abandon.
Answer: True
An individual may refer him/herself as man or
woman based on the biological characteristics that
he/ she has.
Answer: True
Sexuality is about sexual attraction, sexual practices,
and identity.
Answer: True
The usual level of sex hormones for male is
testosterone.
Answer: True
Freud believed the Oedipus complex was normally
resolved in males and the id became their heir.
Answer: False
If a human shows signs in both sexes, the person is
considered an intersex.
Answer: True
Freud also acknowledged that the Oedipus
Complex insight in the processes of growth in girls
was “unsatisfactory, incomplete, and ambiguous.”
Answer: True
The Navajo Nation of Arizona believes in the “two-
spirit” which is a belief that there are certain
individuals born with two genders who both display
a feminine and masculine side.
This culture is from
_____________________________.
Answer: America
Freud developed his theory of femininity and
masculinity from the comparison between the
actions of the two sexes after that discovery, which
is what we now term
__________________________.
Answer: Gender role identity
Human reproduction is the process in which human
beings produce more human beings similar to
themselves.
Answer: True
“The girl replied with the impression that she had
been castrated to the discovery of the sexual
difference, whereupon she adopted the notion of
clitoral inferiority and, for the rest of her life,
suffered from penile envy. The girl kept her mother,
who had sent her so insufficiently prepared into the
world, as responsible for her lack of penis. Then she
renounced her mother as an object of love in order
to obtain a penis and turned libidinally to her
boyfriend. However, when she discovered that her
castration was irreparable, she sought
compensation for losing her father’s infant.”
What is Freud’s conclusion on this scenario?
Answer: In the boy, castration anxiety resolved the
complex of Oedipus, while in the child, castration
anxiety led to the complex of Oedipus.
Freud believed that both genders were
fundamentally congruent with prephallic
development.
Answer: True
Gender segregation patterns in which children play
in groups of the same gender, which follow
disparities in the types of games played, arise at the
age of five for several cultures, and even earlier.
Answer: True
Gender identity is defined as a personal conception
of oneself as male or female (or rarely, both or
neither).
Answer: True
In the patterns of the psychological perspective of
gender differences, it is believed that girls are
spending more time working from age three, while
boys are spending more time in school.
Answer: False
“A boy’s identification with his father enhanced his
masculinity, it originated in innate active (or
masculine) endeavors towards his mother.”
In this context, Freud regarded masculinity as the
external gender.
Answer: False
During the 17th Century, men in Europe would wear
high heels to signify their education.
Answer: False
The term, gender, is also used more broadly to
denote a range of identities that do not correspond
to established ideas of male and female.
Answer: True
Intersexuality describes variations on sex definitions
related to ambiguous genitalia, sex organs,
chromosomes, or hormones.
Answer: True
Asexuality is a term used when individuals do feel
sexual attraction.
Answer: False
In Oxford English Dictionary Gender means “The
state of being male and female as expressed by
biological nature.”
Answer: False
Transgender and intersexuality in society are
sexualities rather than gender categories.
Answer: False
Freud believed that the reaction to the discovery of
sexual differentiation was crucial not only for the
development of female sexuality but also for the
creation of those personality traits which he
identified with femininity: passivity, masochism and
narcissism.
Answer: True
Usually both sexes do not have pubic hair and
underam hair.
Answer: False
Gender in society is also determined by what an
individual feels and does.
Answer: True
The definition of gender now is tagged along with
Biological Identity.
Answer: False

Midterm quiz 1/Midterm quiz 2/Midterm exam:

It fosters a holistic approach to cultural identity, a


child’s self-esteem, religious identity, and gender
identity.
Answer: Family
Children who grow up with parents who encourage
more androgynous gender roles do identify
themselves with stereotypical male or female
stereotypes and have been shown to receive less
encouragement from parents.
Answer: False
It is an expansive comprehensive act that aims to
eliminate all forms of discrimination against
women.
Answer: RA 9710
They develop their sense of self from the
environment in which they grow up.
Answer: Children
According to Mavis Hetherington, there are
variations of gender behaviors depending on
ethnicity, age, and education level, common
standards of desirable gender role behavior abound
in most cultures.
Answer: True
___________________ stereotypes of gender
designate what men and women are.
Answer: Descriptive
The identity of the children is dependent on the
social factors and the influence coming from the
basic unit of society, which is family.
Answer: True
According to the 2000 U.S. Census, _____ % of
lesbian couples and _____ % of gay male couples
were raising children.
Answer: 34.3 and 22.3
It is also known as Batas Kasambahay.
Answer: RA 10361
It seeks to protect victims and prevent all forms of
abuse against women and children.
Answer: RA 9262
Some of the gender behaviors are inherent, such as
aggressiveness in females and nurturing in males.
Answer: False
According to Hermes (2017),
___________________ and _____________play a
large part in determining how fathers and mothers
care for, interact with and teach their children.
Answer: Gender roles and attitudes
A woman's career advancement may be
undermined by descriptive gender stereotypes only,
and the expectations they create.
Answer: False
In most cultures, childcare is largely seen as a
feminine activity, while family survival is seen as a
male responsibility.
Answer: True
Male and female children are likely to view their
gender roles in the same way that their parents do.
Answer: True
Which is true in the relational construction in the
school?
Answer: The teachers are considered to be the
second parents or older brothers/sisters of the
students.
The school ensures good conduct for the students
by developing guidelines and controlling behavior
both indoors, and outdoors.
Answer: True
Within the ____________ keep a tight regulation of
the actions of the students.
Answer: prefects
Which is true from the following statements
according to the Gendered Classroom?
Answer: Changes in culture result in new
challenges that schools need to train students for
subject and career preference.
The following statements are false except:
Answer: Boys were characterized by their being
competitive, optimistic and smart.
Which is the true definition of the hidden
curriculum?
Answer: Hidden curriculum refers to the lessons,
principles and experiences that students study at
school unwritten, unofficial and sometimes
unintentional.
Which of the following statements is true according
to the Gendered Classroom?
Answer: Structures or Hierarchy have been placed
to ensure discipline at the school.
The following statements are true according to the
Gendered Classroom except:
Answer: Religious and social standards teachers
and students believed in the unity of sexes.
Which is not the function of the hidden curriculum?
Answer: Hidden curriculum provides classes,
lectures, and learning experiences in which
students engage, as well as the information and
skills educators actively teach students.
The following statements are true except:

Answer: Boys perceived themselves as the


caretaker of the home and children.
Prescriptive stereotypes establish normative
expectations for men’s and women’s behavior,
resulting in the devaluation and derogation of
women who directly or indirectly violate gender
norms.
Answer: True
Gender stereotypes are generalizations of men and
women’s attributes.
Answer: True
Gender stereotypes descriptive prescribe what
women and men should be like.
Answer: False
Whether it works descriptively or prescriptively,
gender discrimination can hamper ambitious
women's career development.
Answer: True
Stereotypes are generalizations of groups attributed
to particular group members simply because they
belong to that category.
Answer: True

Final quiz 1/Final quiz 2/Final exam:

According to the World Bank, _____ % of women


worldwide, have experienced either physical and/or
sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner
sexual violence.
Answer: 35%
_________________ can be defined as the
behaviors, values, and attitudes that a society
considers appropriate for both males and females.
Answer: Gender roles
____________________ is what you should to be
socially acceptable.
Answer: Gender Prescription
Gender equality is the equality of the sexes.
Answer: True
LGBT activists and sociologists see LGBT
community-building as a counterbalance to
heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia,
sexualism, and conformist pressures that exist in
the larger society.
Answer: True
__________________________ is what you should
not do in order to be socially acceptable.
Answer: Gender Proscription
Europe also has a long history of gender-based
violence including violent periods of religious
persecution through eras such as the
____________.
Answer: Witch hunts
The Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows that
a third of all women in Australia have been
assaulted physically and a fifth of all women have
been assaulted sexually.
Answer: True
The effects of gender-based abuse are long-lasting
and wide-ranging that leaves the victim a
devastating life, social ills, and/or death.
Answer: True
In history, one of the most noteworthy acts of
violence against women is the sexual slavery that
happened in World War II.
Answer: True
In South Africa, a study found that adolescent boys
between ____ and ____ are five times more likely
to be murdered than adolescent girls.
Answer: 15 and 17
European countries with a prevalence of GDV are
Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Maldives.
Answer: False
It is the harm inflicted upon individuals and groups
that is connected to normative understandings of
their gender.
Answer: Gender-based violence
In Canada, most provinces have passed legislation
based on Saskatchewan’s Victims of Domestic
Violence Act (1995), which increases the options
and material support available to victims.
Answer: True
Traditionally, men and women had completely
opposing roles, women were seen as the provider
for the family, and men were seen as the caretakers
of both the home and the family.
Answer: False
Anyone can be the victim or perpetrator of gender-
abused because of class, race, age, or religion.
Answer: False
Feminism incorporates the position that societies
prioritize the female point of view, and that men
are treated unfairly within those societies.
Answer: False
Activities heavily associated with violence are
overwhelmingly shaped by understandings of
gender and gender roles.
Answer: True
According to the World Bank, globally, ____% of
women have been sexually assaulted by someone
other than a partner.
Answer: 7%
Feminism is a range of social movements, political
movements, and ideologies that aim to define,
establish, and achieve the political, economic,
personal, and social equality of the sexes.
Answer: True
Gender violence only targets women.
Answer: False
Violence can and does occur for females only.
Answer: False
It is a euphemism to prostitution during World War
II.
Answer: Comfort Women
The LGBT community also referred to as the gay
community, is a defined grouping of lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, LGBT organizations, and
subcultures, divided by different cultures and social
movements.
Answer: False
South Africa was also found to have the highest rate
of rape in the world at 132.4 incidents of rape per
1,000 people.
Answer: False
Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to
and differentiating between, masculinity and
femininity.
Answer: True
In 2011 and 2015, ________ has recorded 40,000
dowry-related deaths.
Answer: India
In WWII, the minority of young Asian women
occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army were
forced into being the sex slaves.
Answer: False
According to the World Bank, ____% of murders of
women are committed by an intimate partner.
Answer: 38%
_________________________ justifies that GBV
are main cause of international homicides and the
record was set from Nepal and Bangladesh.
Answer: Asia Foundation
FGM is not only a matter of equality among
females, but it protects a person's rights to health,
security, and physical integrity.
Answer: False
We live in a world where the milieu tells us what we
do and what we should do based on our gender, it’s
called gender stereotype.
Answer: True
Gender Proscription is what you should not do in
order to be socially acceptable.
Answer: True
A gender stereotype is known by many as a sex role.
It is a social role encompassing a range of behaviors
and attitudes that are generally unacceptable,
inappropriate, or undesirable for a person based on
that person’s biological or perceived sex.
Answer: False
Gender Prescription is what you should to be
socially acceptable.
Answer: True

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