Semester 2 Gender Studies Dual Credit Final Study Guide 2025

Study for US history through gender studies for semester two final.

Cisgender

The word cisgender describes a person whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth

Gender Binary

System that classifies sex and gender into a pair of opposites, often imposed by culture, religion, or other societal pressures.

Non Binary

Any gender identity that is not strictly male or female all the time, and so does not fit within the gender binary.

Gender Non-conforming

Gender expression by an individual whose behavior, mannerisms, and/or appearance does not match masculine or feminine gender norms

Patriarchal System

Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of dominance and privilege are held by men.

Heteronormativity

The concept that heterosexuality is the preferred or normal sexual orientation.

Gender Stereotypes

A generalized view or preconception about attributes or characteristics, or the roles that are or ought to be possessed by, or performed by women and men

Gender privilege

System of advantages or rights that are available to people on the basis of their sex.

Oppression

Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control

Marginalization

Treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral. The act of treating someone or something as if they are not important

Explicit Bias

Implicit Bias

Intersectionality

Cisnormativity

A discourse based on assumption that cisgender is the norm and privileges this over any other form of gender identity.

Intersex

Core Cultural Identifier: Race/Ethnicity

Core Cultural Identifier: Family structure

Core Cultural Identifier: Sexual orientation

Core Cultural Identifier: Age

Core Cultural Identifier: Gender Identity

Core Cultural Identifier: Socio-economic status

Core Cultural Identifier: Ability

Core Cultural Identifier: Religion

BlindSpot #1: Mindbugs

ingrained habits of thought that lead to errors in how we perceive, remember, reason, and make decisions

BlindSpot #1: Unconcious inteference

Way to describe how an illusion like Shepard's table tops might work… Aimed to describe means by which the mind creates from physical data the conscious perceptions that define our ordinary and subjective experiences of "seeing"; When you see a small car far away, you still know it’s a normal-sized car, not a small, toy sized car. Your brain automatically adjusts your perception without you thinking about it.

BlindSpot #1: False alarm memory

a memory error in which we mistakenly remember something that did not occur​. In the reading, it comes from automatic associations in memory; In the book it talks about a word list exercise where subjects studied insect related words but not the word insect itself. Because of the insect theme, most people remember having seen the word insect even though it was not in there.

BlindSpot #1: Retroactive interference

An influence of the experience information on memory; An experiment was held where two groups were asked what about speed one car hit another in a car accident. One group was asked the speed at which the car “smashed” into the other and the other was asked the same question but using the word “hit” instead. Those asked the “smashed” question answered with a higher speed.

BlindSpot #1: Availability heuristic

When instances of one type of event (such as death by murder rather than suicide) come more easily to mind than those of another type, we tend to assume that the first event also must occur more frequently around the world.; One example is that, since you hear more about car accident deaths compared to abdominal cancer deaths in the news, you assume that car accident deaths are more common.

BlindSpot #1: Anchoring

The idea that the mind doesn’t search for information in a vacuum it rather starts by using whatever information immediately available as a reference point or “anchor”; A restaurant menu might feature a $100 lobster right next to a slightly less expensive dish, like a $30 steak. knowing that the lobster is much more expensive, you will most likely believe that the steak is a better option even though it may be overpriced.

BlindSpot #2: Valence

When categories can be linked to each other via shared goodness or badness, the shared property (Positive attracts/ negative repels)

BlindSpot #2: Mental association

mental glue that can allow two categories to combine into one corresponds to an ancient concept in psychology

BlindSpot #3: Dissociation

The occurrence , in one and the same mind, of mutually inconsistent ideas that remain isolated from one another

BlindSpot #3: 2 Facts of mind: Reflective & Automatic

Reflective is rational, Automatic is intuitive

BlindSpot #3: Cognitive dissonance

that becoming aware of conflicts between our beliefs and our actions, or between simultaneously coexisting belief, violates natural human striving mental harmony, consonance (agreement between opinions or actions)