PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Influences on the Psychology of Women - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Feminist Psychology: emphasizes the
interactions between social structures and gender; approaches psychology from a feminist perspective
Psychology of Women: focuses on women's lives and experiences
Psychology of Gender: focuses on social & biological processes creating differences between women
and men
Sexism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Old-fashioned sexism
Modern sexism/Neosexism
Hostile sexism
Benevolent sexism
Historical Background - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅How did the Psychology of Women Start?
Realization that much of psychological knowledge about women and gender was androcentric, or male-
centered
Began to rethink psychological concepts and research methods
Women in the field of psychology began to study and teach topics of importance to women and girls
Psychology and the Women's Movement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅First Wave
Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848: Rejected idea of female inferiority
,19th Amendment, 1920: Women win the Right to Vote
The Second Wave
1960's "Women's Liberation Movement"
Association of Women in Psychology is formed in 1969
American Psychological Association forms Division 35 in 1973, the Psychology of Women
The Third Wave - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The Third Wave: Contemporary Feminism
Focus of Third Wave: Emphasizes diversity among women
Focus on social activism
Favors the person's right to define what feminism means to them
The Fourth Wave - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Feminism is in the early years of the "fourth wave"
AWP continues to thrive as an activist organization
APA Division 35 is one of APA's larger divisions
More emphasis on intersectionality and critique of the gender binary
Transgender issues are more prominent
,What is Feminism? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Liberal Feminism
How people react when gender norms are broken
Socialization of gender roles in children
Sex discrimination in the workplace
Radical Feminism
Research on violence against women & girls
Womanism or Women-of-Color feminism-
Strengths-based perspective
Looks at systems of inequality across gender, race/ethnicity, social
Looks at systems of inequality across gender, race/ethnicity, social class and ability class and ability
Cultural feminism: emphases differences between men and women
Global feminism-sex trafficking, sweat shop labor, unequal access to education and health care
Feminist: a person who believes women are valuable and social change to benefit women is needed
Feminism: a movement to end sexism and sexist oppression
, Gender Equality Around the World and Transnational Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action
Gender equality
Educational, political, economical, and health
Gender-based violence
Transnational feminism
Themes in the Psychology of Women and Gender - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Feminine evil
Male as normative
Androcentrism
Gender Differences and Similarities
Critiquing the Gender Binary
Intersectionality of gender
The social construction of gender
Two spirit
Person variable
Influences on the Psychology of Women - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Feminist Psychology: emphasizes the
interactions between social structures and gender; approaches psychology from a feminist perspective
Psychology of Women: focuses on women's lives and experiences
Psychology of Gender: focuses on social & biological processes creating differences between women
and men
Sexism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Old-fashioned sexism
Modern sexism/Neosexism
Hostile sexism
Benevolent sexism
Historical Background - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅How did the Psychology of Women Start?
Realization that much of psychological knowledge about women and gender was androcentric, or male-
centered
Began to rethink psychological concepts and research methods
Women in the field of psychology began to study and teach topics of importance to women and girls
Psychology and the Women's Movement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅First Wave
Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848: Rejected idea of female inferiority
,19th Amendment, 1920: Women win the Right to Vote
The Second Wave
1960's "Women's Liberation Movement"
Association of Women in Psychology is formed in 1969
American Psychological Association forms Division 35 in 1973, the Psychology of Women
The Third Wave - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The Third Wave: Contemporary Feminism
Focus of Third Wave: Emphasizes diversity among women
Focus on social activism
Favors the person's right to define what feminism means to them
The Fourth Wave - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Feminism is in the early years of the "fourth wave"
AWP continues to thrive as an activist organization
APA Division 35 is one of APA's larger divisions
More emphasis on intersectionality and critique of the gender binary
Transgender issues are more prominent
,What is Feminism? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Liberal Feminism
How people react when gender norms are broken
Socialization of gender roles in children
Sex discrimination in the workplace
Radical Feminism
Research on violence against women & girls
Womanism or Women-of-Color feminism-
Strengths-based perspective
Looks at systems of inequality across gender, race/ethnicity, social
Looks at systems of inequality across gender, race/ethnicity, social class and ability class and ability
Cultural feminism: emphases differences between men and women
Global feminism-sex trafficking, sweat shop labor, unequal access to education and health care
Feminist: a person who believes women are valuable and social change to benefit women is needed
Feminism: a movement to end sexism and sexist oppression
, Gender Equality Around the World and Transnational Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action
Gender equality
Educational, political, economical, and health
Gender-based violence
Transnational feminism
Themes in the Psychology of Women and Gender - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Feminine evil
Male as normative
Androcentrism
Gender Differences and Similarities
Critiquing the Gender Binary
Intersectionality of gender
The social construction of gender
Two spirit
Person variable
