LEARNING OBJECTIVES - 1.1a. Define feminist psychology and explain ho...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1.1 A Feminist Psychology for Modern Girls and Women 1.1a. Define feminist psychology and explain how it applies to oppression.

1.1b. Differentiate between feminist psychology and general psychology.

1.1c. List some of the social and current events that feminist psychology addresses.

1.1d. Hypothesize how feminist psychology could be applied to an issue faced by college students, such as sexual violence on campus, coming out as LGBTQ, or another issue of your choice.

1.1e. Evaluate how the concept of the “half-changed world” applies to feminist psychology.

1.1f. Recognize the existing problems faced by girls and women despite the progress made by feminism.

1.2 Feminism: Riding the Waves

1.2a. Identify the four “waves” of feminism and list one event from each wave.

1.2b. Illustrate how one “wave” and its associated events currently impact your life as a feminist psychology student.

1.2c. Recognize oppression and how it manifests for the individual woman based on unique intersectional identities.

1.3 The F-Word 1.3a. List and describe the seven major perspectives of feminism 1.3b. Differentiate between the branches of feminism.

1.3c. Summarize the perspective of feminism that appeals to you most and explain why this perspective applies to your personal ethics as a feminist psychologist.

1.3d. Evaluate the weaknesses of one perspective of feminism. Hypothesize how this perspective could be revised to be more applicable to your studies and daily life.

1.4 I’m Not a Feminist, But...

1.4a. Justify the relevance of feminist psychology despite the emergence of post-feminism.

1.4b. Propose some of the consequences of post-feminism and not identifying as a feminist.

1.5 Who Is a Feminist?

1.5a. Identify why a member of certain social groups or minorities may be reluctant to identify as a feminist.

1.5b. Assess why womanism is a more relevant perspective of feminism for some women of color.

1.5c. Illustrate some of the benefits and consequences of feminist identification. Consider the impact that feminist identification has on minority or disenfranchised populations.

1.6 Feminism Comes to Psychology 1.6a. Restate some of the experiences of women in psychology from the late 19 th century through the mid-20 th century.

1.6b. Identify three factors that contributed to and signaled the formation of the psychology of women.

1.6c. Assess how feminists have challenged the production and interpretation of knowledge, including how feminist epistemologies inform the practice of psychology.

1.7 Understanding Research Methods 1.7a. List some of the elements of the research process needed to accurately critique research on the psychology of women and gender.

1.7b. Describe the key differences between experimental and correlational design. Provide one Test Bank for Psychology of Women and Gender, 1e by Miriam Liss, Kate Richmond, Mindy Erchull (All Chapters)

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example of each.

1.8 Identifying Sex/Gender Bias in Research 1.8a. Summarize how your own identities could potentially contribute to bias in sex and gender research.

1.8b. Propose a research question that minimizes bias based on feminist principles addressed in this chapter. Justify how your research question addresses potential bias.

MULTIPLE CHOICE

• Psychology of women is most accurately described as a subfield of psychology that focuses
• explicitly on the tenets of feminism.
• on the lives of girls and women, with the inclusion of political and social movements.
• on biological determinism and the differences between women and men.
• on the downturn faced by female adolescents as they become more susceptible to eating

disorders and social stereotypes.

ANS: B DIF: Medium

REF: 1.1 A Feminist Psychology for Modern Girls and Women

OBJ: 1.1b MSC: Understanding

• Feminism, according to bell hooks, is described as
• a womanist/women of color approach to feminism.
• being accessible to everyone.
• unnecessary after the third and fourth wave of feminism.
• a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

ANS: D DIF: Easy

REF: 1.1 A Feminist Psychology for Modern Girls and Women

OBJ: 1.1a MSC: Remembering

• In terms of its values and overall perspective, feminist psychology is
• individual and non-interdisciplinary.
• objective and value-neutral.
• explicit and transparent.
• unnecessary and dated.

ANS: C DIF: Easy

REF: 1.1 A Feminist Psychology for Modern Girls and Women

OBJ: 1.1a MSC: Understanding

• Patricia has cerebral palsy, a type of physical disability. She is more likely to face degradation due to her

economic and social realities, including poverty, lack of access to accessible housing, and a lack of opportunities in the workplace despite educational attainment. She is also more likely to be physically or sexually mistreated by a partner. This scenario is an example of

• systemic racism.
• oppression.
• the personal is political.
• the half-changed world.

ANS: B DIF: Medium

REF: 1.1 A Feminist Psychology for Modern Girls and Women

OBJ: 1.1a MSC: Applying

• Emma Watson’s 2014 #heforshe campaign addressed underlying social issues around gender by asking

men to consider which of the following? 2 / 4

• how gender stereotypes are harmful for both men and women
• the positive aspects of toxic masculinity
• that some boys and men are not ready to redefine masculinity and gender roles
• how to create a more female-positive presence on social media sites, such as Twitter

ANS: A DIF: Easy

REF: 1.1 A Feminist Psychology for Modern Girls and Women

OBJ: 1.1c MSC: Remembering

• According to Orenstein’s (2000) concept of the “half-changed world,” it is important to do which of the

following?

• accept all strides toward gender equality without question
• consider the progress that has already been made within feminism and the psychology of

women

• examine who benefits from feminist gains and if these gains actually provide equality
• consider that the world will never be perfect and accept that equality is impossible for all

women to achieve

ANS: C DIF: Medium

REF: 1.1 A Feminist Psychology for Modern Girls and Women

OBJ: 1.1e MSC: Understanding

• Which of the following statistics are NOT true?
• Women are the fastest growing group who are incarcerated and are more likely to be mothers,

women of color, poor, and survivors of violence.

• Sixty-one percent of murder victims in the LGBTQ population are transgender women of color.
• The prevalence of eating disorders has been increasing since the 1950s.
• Women would rather be described as fat than mean or stupid.
• In the United States, women receive 50% of pay in comparison to men, and are likely to have their

wages increase across occupations as they age and become less vulnerable to poverty.

• C
• D
• E
• Both D and E

ANS: D DIF: Easy

REF: 1.1 A Feminist Psychology for Modern Girls and Women

OBJ: 1.1f MSC: Remembering

• Within the LGBTQ population, who is the most vulnerable to murder, hate crimes, police violence,

discrimination, threats, and intimidation?

• lesbians of color
• gay men of color
• transgender women of color
• bisexual women of color

ANS: C DIF: Easy

REF: 1.1 A Feminist Psychology for Modern Girls and Women

OBJ: 1.1a MSC: Remembering

• This chapter notes that the well-being of girls and women is still at risk in part because
• societal bias and sexism are blatant and direct, making them easier to identify.
• employers may still ask female job applicants questions about marital status, and women

aren’t allowed to file sexual harassment lawsuits.

• women are compensated with high-profile recognition and financial bonuses for every hour 3 / 4

they work.

• women are often asked to do non-paid labor or menial tasks such as organizing meetings,

serving as note-taker, and planning office parties unlike their male peers.

ANS: D DIF: Easy

REF: 1.1 A Feminist Psychology for Modern Girls and Women

OBJ: 1.1a MSC: Understanding

• Which of the following is NOT an example of the problematic nature of the term “empowerment” as

applied to the lives of girls and women?

• Empowerment tends to focus on the individual accomplishments of women in male

dominated spheres without examining substantial and larger socio-cultural change.

• Female empowerment often focuses on ways of selling products and brands (e.g., the Spice

Girls proclaiming “girl power” by achieving fame, wearing fashionable clothing, doing their nails, and maintaining stereotypical ideals of women’s body shape, size, and appearance).

• Empowerment can be used to focus on large-scale change and examine accomplishments

within and among diverse groups of women.

• Empowertising generates a strong response that feels empowering, but doesn’t offer any

actual solutions for achieving empowerment.

ANS: C DIF: Medium

REF: 1.1 A Feminist Psychology for Modern Girls and Women

OBJ: 1.1c MSC: Analyzing

• Which of the following describes a study grounded in principles of feminist psychology?
• A qualitative study on conditions as girls and women reach different points in the lifespan.
• A quantitative study on workplace conditions and industrial/organizational dynamics.
• A quantitative study on men, body image, and sports culture.
• A qualitative study focused on cultural and social factors that contribute to the development

of eating disorders and culturally appropriate interventions.

ANS: D DIF: Medium

REF: 1.1 A Feminist Psychology for Modern Girls and Women

OBJ: 1.1b MSC: Applying

• The following events are noteworthy features of which wave of feminism: The Seneca Falls Convention,

the emphasis on women gaining the right to vote, and Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” address, which critiqued how Black women were not protected with basic human rights, including freedom from physical and emotional pain and abuse?

• the first wave
• the second wave
• the third wave
• the fourth wave

ANS: A DIF: Medium REF: 1.2 Feminism: Riding the Waves OBJ: 1.2a MSC: Remembering

• Which of the following is true regarding the Redstockings protest of the 1968 and 1969 Miss America

pageants?

• It involved feminists setting their bras and other artifacts of oppression on fire.
• It was a symbolic protest of items of oppression including bras, cosmetics, and high heels.
• It correctly identified the characteristics associated with separatist, lesbian feminism.
• It eliminated oppressive aspects of the pageant through a sit-in.

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