A speaker at a lunch for owners of small businesses says to the audience, Here's a story you can tell your wives.. This situation would be an example of
a. gender as a subject variable.
b. large individual differences.
c. androcentric bias.
d. a confounding variable.
Question 2Suppose that researchers want to see whether people judge baby boys to be smarter than baby girls. These researchers are focusing on
a. gender as a subject variable.
b. gender as a stimulus variable.
c. the theme that individual differences are large when we consider people's ideas about gender.
d. the theme that boys and men are more visible than girls and women.
Question 3If a study finds that people respond significantly differently to women than they do to men, we could conclude that
a. gender as a subject variable is significant.
b. gender as a confounding variable is significant.
c. gender as a stimulus variable is significant.
d. gender as a dependent variable is significant.
Question 4Which of the following journal titles examines gender as a subject variable, as opposed to gender as a stimulus variable?
a. Gender Comparisons in the Use of Dirty Words
b. A Comparison of Catholic Feminist Women and Catholic Traditionalist Women
c. How People Rate Male and Female Drivers
d. Stereotypes About Male and Female Athletes
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