The Bem Test

My masculinity score on the Bem & Bem scale was 4.95 and my femininity score was 5.5. This makes me a polarized feminine because I had a low masculine score and a high feminine score. Some of the characteristics that lead me to this result was having traits like being shy, affectionate, loyal, sympathetic, sensitive to other’s need, understanding, love children, and being gentle. This are traits that show I’m more in the caring side of the inventory. For example, I love children and before I make a decision I think of how it would affect others not just me. I put others before myself and try to help anyone with anything that I can. Before, completing the inventory I had an idea that I would fall more under the feminine side because I’m more

The determination of my gender identity was preset by my parents giving me the chromosomes XY, gave me an anatomic appearance of a female. Also being reared in a hetero environment had an influence in becoming a female as well. So the relation to the masculinity-femininity continuum is that I posses both traits feminine and masculine. In some situations I tend to carry myself as a caring and soft-spoken female, is typical for feminine behavior. On the other hand I express more masculine attributes like aggressiveness and self-reliance, which is typical for masculine behavior. Both add in the development in determining and sustaining my gender identity. The biological perspective by the way was inherited from my parents and aided in the development of the characteristics in becoming a woman, gender role of nurturing and caring individual, and maternal tendencies in taking care of my child. Then the psychological perspective according to my mother to which she insists that I was a normal girl with particular behaviors toward feminine toys and clothes. As a final point, the social environment offers an insight into the typical social role of an American woman, which was predetermined at birth by my social surroundings (Rathus, Nevid &

DOI: 09/12/2014. Patient is a 45-year-old male vacation relief route sales representative who sustained a work-related injury to his lumbar spine from bending and pulling a bread product. Per OMNI entry, he was initially diagnosed with disc herniation at L4 to L5 with radiculopathy. He is status post extraforaminal L4 to L5 discectomy on 04/09/2015. He has been off work for nearly 2 years.

If a person displays masculine, feminine or androgynous behavior, then what determines this? The two main arguments are either gender is innate or it has been learnt. These two different perspectives represent a famous debate that occurs throughout psychology: the nature-nurture debate.

Gender and gender roles are a somewhat complicated idea to understand. Contrary to popular belief, gender and sex are two different things in that “gender is not inherently nor solely connected to one’s physical anatomy” (“Understanding Gender”). When parents automatically assign their child a gender based on their sex organs, it leaves very little room for change later in the child’s life, because children born with female sex organs are not necessarily girls, just as children born with male sex organs are not necessarily boys. Rather, gender is based on mindset, personal identity, outward presentations, and behavior of the individual. Binary genders, or the broadly

The subject of The Test is standardized test and how they negatively affect our children's lives.

I scored 2.18 in the hostile sexism category and 3.09 in the benevolent category (average scores) indicating that I have low levels of hostile sexism and I don’t hold negative stereotypes about career women and I don’t tolerate issues surrounding domestic violence, sexual harassment etc. My low levels of benevolent sexism indicate that I would not blame a woman who’s rapped because she dressed too revealing. My race test suggests little to no automatic preference between European American and African American. I fell in the 12% category with other test takers. I love all people despite ethnicity. Diversity is what makes the world a beautiful place. My gender test suggests a moderate association of male with career and female with family compared to female with career and male with family. I fell in the 15% category with other test takers. I know my upbringing was a factor in my gender test results as my father was the head and provider of our house and my mother was the homemaker. I want to believe that my historical, individual and social structure were the determining factors of my test

Disney Princess inspire young girls but is it in a good way? A debate that’s going on this day is “Is Disney Sexist”. With Feminism becoming strong people are starting to question if certain things are sexist. When you have a company that makes many movies that inspire young girls it is bound to come up. Disney is not sexist because only one Disney princess film did not pass the Bechdel test, princesses are focusing less on their appearances, and Disney princesses are teaching girls.

To conclude, the two Bechdel Tests prove woman and coloured characters are poorly portrayed and clearly misrepresented in popular culture films. The Bechdel test is judged more thoroughly than just as a fail or a pass, it is something where people in society can easily recognize gender and racial discrimination. To add, I believe there is a link between what we view in media and what we view in society, and the representation of women and coloured people are designed to surround and idolize a dominant character, this character being a white male. In order to challenge viewers even more, I would want to add ability to the test, by asking, are there two or more characters with disabilities (should have names)? Do they talk to one another? And

Like most of you, I was only able to do the first part of the test. I received a score of 17 out of 20. I do not like geometry, so I am pretty happy with the score I got. Even though the results stated that men score higher than women due to their good spatial judgments skills, but I think some women are better at it than men and vice versa. Nevertheless, it was a pretty fun quiz. From reading other students' posts, I came across an article that really caught my interest. "10 Famous Films That Surprisingly Fail The Bechdel Test" by Ashe Cantrell blew my away.

The Wonderlic Personnel Test and Scholastic Level Exam is a norm-reference test used by employers and career counselors. The WPT is used to assess new job candidates to measures general intelligence, which gives understanding into just how candidates can be taught and how easily they adapt in the workplace. However, WPT does not measures how the ability to learn is utilized. The test is 12-minute, which consist of 50-items. The reliability of the instrument has been mostly successful.

BIM uses the Test of Adult Basic Education “TABE” to assess students upon enrollment. The TABE tests skills and aptitudes by measuring the following six basic skills. Reading, Math, Language, Language Mechanics, Vocabulary, and Spelling. The TABE advanced-level tests skills in Science, Social Studies, and Algebra/Geometry, and Writing. The analysis from the tests is used to help determine an appropriate educational track for each student. The students prepare, pass, and progress at their own pace throughout the course of study in each domain. Upon passing each course of study the student is provided an online test, free of charge, at a local testing

Androgyny is a word used to describe individuals whose personalities reflect both stereotypical male and female roles. First developing the concept in 1975, psychologist Sandra Bem understood that androgyny allowed for an individual's behaviour and intelligence to become more flexible in everyday circumstances. According to Bem those who fall into the stereotypical gender roles limit themselves to the stereotype constraints. Androgyny individuals are more common in modern society, thus gradually exterminating gender stereotypes. Ultimately this can act as an extraneous variable as well as an advantage when researching the differences in gender intelligence.

For example, females usually inherit an X chromosome form both parents. Social skills which are a typical female characteristics can be found in he x chromosome. From these findings it can be said that women are more comfortable in social settings. I can think of my husband in social settings where he does not know anyone he is less likely than me to introduce himself. I have no problem introducing myself and striking up a conversation with a stranger. Hormones also have an effect on gender determination. Men and women go through maturity as a result of hormones. Estrogen in women and Testosterone influence skills and tendencies associated with gender. Sex effects how the brain develops. According to our textbook, the force of biology is evident in cases where doctors try to change a child’s biological sex” (47). Doctors mistakenly amputated David’s penis to correct phimosis, a condition in which the foreskin of the penis interferes with urination. The child’s name was changed to Brenda and she did not take to being a girl. Later in life Brenda changed her name back into David and began living a life as a male eventually getting married and raising stepchildren. I believe that biological theory is accurate match for one’s gender.

Our text did suggest that there are several ways that genetics influence gender identity. My gender identity is influenced by my genetics because I was raised by my great grand parents. This means I am more apt to take on the old fashioned ways or believing in what a woman should act or be. I think that my gender identity has been shaped by the environment that I was raised in. I think that some evidence to support this would be that I do believe that me as a woman should do the cooking and cleaning. A woman should be married to one man in her life. A woman place in the world is behind her man. A woman must be able to do what a man does and work as hard as they can.