Which of the following students provides the most accurate summary of the research on people's attributions for their own success?
a. Ned: If we look only at adults who are older than 25, men are more likely than women to attribute their success to their high ability..
b. Diane: When working on gender-neutral tasks, men are more likely than women to attribute their success to their high ability..
c. Sylvan: When people provide their judgments in private, men are more likely than women to attribute their success to their high ability..
d. Nadia: Actually, no gender differences have been reported in this area..
Question 2Your best friendsone female and one malehave just made the dean's list at your college. If both are typical of their genders, how would they explain their success to themselves?
a. The male would be more likely to think it was just luck.
b. The male will be more likely to think that he really worked hard.
c. The female will be more likely to think that her instructors just happened to like her this semester.
d. These two people probably will not differ substantially in their thoughts about their reasons for success.
Question 3What can we conclude about the way in which women and men explain why they were successful on a task?
a. Men are consistently more likely than women to say that their success is due to their ability.
b. Men are consistently more likely than women to say that their success is due to hard work.
c. Overall, there are no consistent gender differences in these attributions.
d. Men are consistently more likely than women to blame their failures on lack of hard work.
Question 4In Chapter 5, you tried a demonstration that focused on the definitions of success, as provided by highly successful people. The results of the study showed that
a. men were much more likely than women to emphasize that a high salary was the most important measure of success.
b. women were much more likely than men to emphasize that they enjoy helping staff members to develop their own unique strengths.
c. women were somewhat more likely than men to describe a balance between personal relationships and achievement as a professional.
d. men and women responded very similarly in this study.
Question 5Chapter 5 described a study in which bank employees received either positive or negative comments from a supervisor. The results of this study showed that
a. women were more responsive to the feedback than men were.
b. men were more responsive to the feedback than women were.
c. women were more likely to believe positive comments, but men were more likely to believe negative comments.
d. there were no gender differences in responsiveness to these comments.
Question 6According to the research on self-confidence and other people's evaluations of your work,
a. men are more likely than women to believe that other people are giving them accurate evaluations.
b. women consider comments from others when they try to figure out how well they are doing; men pay less attention to the comments.
c. men are more accurate than women in recalling the nature of the comments they have received from other people.
d. women are more likely than men to believe that they do not deserve negative comments.
Question 7Imagine that a male and a female have each received negative comments about an oral presentation. What would you be likely to observe about their self-confidence?
a. The self-confidence of both would decrease dramatically.
b. The self-confidence of the female would decrease, whereas the self-confidence of the male would actually increase slightly.
c. The self-confidence of the female would decrease more than the self-confidence of the male.
d. The decline in their self-confidence would be greater if the negative remarks were made privately, rather than in public.
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