Lesson 4.3.3.5

4.3.3.5 Social learning, culture and media in gender roles Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 3

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The 20 questions

  1. According to social learning theory, how are gender roles primarily learned?

    • Cognitive stage progression
    • Biological maturation
    • Observation and imitation
    • Psychosexual development

  2. What term describes learning by observing a model being rewarded for a behaviour?

    • Vicarious punishment
    • Vicarious reinforcement
    • Classical conditioning
    • Direct reinforcement

  3. What process occurs when a child relates to a role model and desires to be like them?

    • Identification
    • Deindividuation
    • Compliance
    • Internalisation

  4. According to Bandura, which mediational process determines whether an observed behaviour is actually performed?

    • Motivation
    • Attention
    • Retention
    • Motor reproduction

  5. Who studied gender roles in Papua New Guinea, finding non-stereotypical gender behaviours across different tribes?

    • John Money
    • Margaret Mead
    • Sandra Bem
    • Albert Bandura

  6. How do traditional media depictions typically influence children's gender roles according to social learning theory?

    • Promoting androgyny
    • Reducing stereotypes
    • Eliminating bias
    • Reinforcing stereotypes

  7. What is a major theoretical limitation of the social learning explanation of gender development?

    • Ignores biological factors
    • Rejects environmental influences
    • Ignores social factors
    • Overemphasises maturation

  8. A father praises his son for playing football. Which process is being used to encourage gender-typed behaviour?

    • Negative reinforcement
    • Vicarious punishment
    • Direct reinforcement
    • Vicarious reinforcement

  9. Which type of role model are children most likely to imitate according to social learning theory?

    • Opposite-sex models
    • Same-sex models
    • Younger models
    • Abstract models

  10. Who conducted the famous Bobo doll study demonstrating observational learning in children?

    • B.F. Skinner
    • Jean Piaget
    • Sigmund Freud
    • Albert Bandura

  11. Which biological factor is minimised by social learning explanations of gender development?

    • Media exposure
    • Cultural norms
    • Classical conditioning
    • Prenatal hormones

  12. What do cross-cultural variations in gender roles suggest about gender development?

    • Gender is fixed
    • Gender is biological
    • Gender is innate
    • Gender is learned

  13. Children whose parents share domestic chores show less gender stereotyping due to which learning factor?

    • Biological maturation
    • Non-stereotypical modelling
    • Direct punishment
    • Vicarious punishment

  14. According to social learning theory, which environmental factor drives the acquisition of gender roles?

    • Hormonal exposure
    • Cognitive stage
    • Genetic inheritance
    • Observational learning

  15. Seeing a television character rewarded for gender-typed behaviour provides which type of learning experience?

    • Direct reinforcement
    • Negative punishment
    • Direct punishment
    • Vicarious reinforcement

  16. Which factor increases a child's likelihood of imitating a media role model?

    • High status
    • Genetic similarity
    • Biological age
    • Low status

  17. In social learning theory, what process occurs when a child wants to be like a role model?

    • Internalisation
    • Identification
    • Vicarious reinforcement
    • Direct reinforcement

  18. What term describes receiving rewards or punishments for your own gender-typed behaviour?

    • Vicarious reinforcement
    • Identification
    • Direct reinforcement
    • Mediational processes

  19. What process occurs when teachers praise boys and girls for different gender-typed tasks?

    • Vicarious punishment
    • Classical conditioning
    • Direct imitation
    • Differential reinforcement

  20. Why is Bandura's Bobo doll study criticised as evidence for gender role development?

    • It lacked validity
    • It tested adults
    • It lacked reliability
    • It tested aggression

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