MCQ Bank
Which of the followings incorporates the response characteristics of a gender role into one’s personality?
- A) Gender role recognition
- B) Gender role adoption
- C) Gender role preference
- D) Gender role identification
In Karen Horney’s perspective, the significance of which of the following is emphasized?
- A) Social work
- B) Social learning
- C) Social forces
- D) Social adjustment
Which of the following emphasizes that individual’s gender development is a process of observational learning, imitation, modeling and reward?
- A) Psycho-analytical theories
- B) Cognitive development theory
- C) Social learning theory
- D) Cerebral lateralization theory
Stereotypes are primarily ____________ in nature.
- A) Negative
- B) Both positive & negative
- C) Positive
- D) Neutral
According to Sadker, teachers have a tendency to pay more attention to _____________.
- A) Males
- B) Both males and females
- C) Females
- D) Not both of them
Development of gender-roles is a positive factor for which of the following?
- A) Socialization and ideal self development process
- B) Socialization and gender development process
- C) Socialization and adjustment process
- D) Cultural and Socialization process
The core of which of the following approaches is the idea that people’s thinking determines how they will perceive the world, and how these perceptions will be acted upon?
- A) Cognitive approach
- B) Behavioral approach
- C) Psychoanalytic approach
- D) Humanistic approach
Women’s are defined as what to the masculine role in non-industrialized countries?
- A) Assistant
- B) Forceful
- C) Subordinate
- D) Dominant
Who among the following portrayed as more capable, heroic, professional, wiser and adventurous in the textbooks?
- A) Youth
- B) Men
- C) Senior citizens
- D) Women
Contrary to Freud, Karen Horney argues that the envy females have for males is not due to desire to match with them physically rather it is because of a desire to attain:
- A) Social prestige
- B) Intimacy
- C) Dominance
- D) Autonomy as men
How many psychological theories have addressed in explaining the formation of gender stereotypes?
- A) Five
- B) Three
- C) Six
- D) Four
Psychodynamic approach is based on Freud’s theory of which of the followings?
- A) Physiological development
- B) Psychological development
- C) Sexual development
- D) Psychosexual development
Theorists have found that sex- stereotypes are same globally and gender roles are:
- A) Natural and flexible
- B) Developed and biased
- C) Culturally oriented
- D) Rigid and static
According to Freud, gender roles develop as a result of resolution process of conflict at which of the following stages?
- A) Anal
- B) Oral
- C) Latency
- D) Phallic
Which of the followings is much more common in boys, than in girls?
- A) Verbal aggression
- B) Social aggression
- C) Relational aggression
- D) Physical aggression
Who among the following is considered oppressed since men have been having dominant positions?
- A) Minorities
- B) Different races
- C) Women
- D) Old age people
Positive and negative reinforcement, no reinforcement, or use of punishment is the concepts related to which of the following?
- A) Operant Conditioning
- B) Latent learning
- C) Classical conditioning
- D) Learning by observation
According to the behavioral approach, learning of gender roles can be explained in terms of a result of all the following EXCEPT:
- A) Learning by observation
- B) Prenatal environment
- C) Classical conditioning
- D) Operant conditioning
Who among the following involve in rough-housing play with boys than with girls in infancy?
- A) Grandmother
- B) Mother
- C) Grandfather
- D) Father
Who focuses on early childhood experiences with mothers?
- A) Chodorow
- B) Horney
- C) Freud
- D) Rogers