Author Question: A study by Briere and Lanktree was described in Chapter 2 . This study compared students' reactions ... (Read 136 times)

erika · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

A study by Briere and Lanktree was described in Chapter 2 . This study compared students' reactions to either a neutral or a masculine generic version of a description about psychologists. This study demonstrated that

a. psychology was viewed as being a less attractive career for women when the masculine generic was used.
b. men judged psychology as being less attractive for themselves when the gender neutral version was used.
c. few people were influenced by the nature of the description.
d. most women remarked that they were offended by the use of the masculine generic.

Question 2

Your text describes in some detail a study by Gastil in which participants reported the mental images evoked by sentences. This research found that

a. males reported more male images than female images when responding to sentences containing he, but females showed no pronoun effect.
b. females reported more male images for the he sentences than males did.
c. both males and females reported an equal number of male and female images when responding to sentences containing they.
d. masculine generic terms produced more thoughts about males than did gender-neutral terms.