Theories of Gender Development (Psychological Perspectives)

Question 1

human behavior explains that human behavior is the result of a person’ unconscious psychological processes.

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PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY

Question 2

PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY associated with Sigmund Freud

Answer 2

“psychoanalytic approach”

Question 3

The adult personality is crucially shaped by childhood experiences (Thorton, 2019)

Answer 3

PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY

Question 4

Result of either frustration or
over-indulgence (it could be both)

Some part of a person’s libido
was stuck at a particular phase

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Fixation

Question 5

Controls risky behaviors such as aggression,.

Answer 5

DeathDrive

Question 6

-feelings of love or affection that drives
us to connect to other

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LifeDrive

Question 7

first proposed by American psychologist Lawrence Kolberg (1927-1987)

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COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT THEORY

Question 8

The child can identify the self as well as other people as a girl or a boy (mama is a girl and papa is a boy)

Based on physical appearance and not seen as constant.

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Stage 1-Gender Labelling/gender identity

Question 9

the child can somewhat identify that gender stays as the person grows older(boys would become daddies and girls would become mommies)

The child still not does not fully appreciate that gender is constant even when physical appearance change

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Stage 2-Gender Stability

Question 10

A child develops an understanding of gender as he or she actively seeks information from his or her environment and organizes gathered information based on his or her cognitive understanding of gender groups (Martin, et.al., 2002)

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COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT THEORY

Question 11

The child how has full appreciation that gender is constant through time and appearances, and across situations.

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Stage 3-Gender consistency

Question 12

Socialization is responsible for gender development not biological influences (Biovin and Martin, 2014)

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SOCIALIZATION THEORY

Question 13

children learn about male and female from the culture that they are part of, and that children align their behavior with their culture’s gender norms right at the earliest stages of their development (Bem 1981)

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Gender schema

Question 14

This is a,

1. observing the environment
2. experiences resulting from one’s behavior
3. Direct instructions from people who the child
   considers as primary influences how to believe

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EMERGENCE OF BEHAVIOR OF
ONE’S GENDER

Question 15

both assert that environment factors are highly influential in gender development

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Social theory and social-cognitive theory

Question 16

3 important role in gender development

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Personal

Behavioral

Environmental

Question 17

Human behavior as three-way, dynamic, give and take model

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SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY

Question 18

Interact with each other
which keep development
going

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Personal

Behavioral

Environmental

Question 19

–environment as the primary
initiator of the child’s development

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Socialization theory

Question 20

-internal motivation drive’s the
child development

Answer 20

Social cognitive theory