Chapter - 10 Flashcards
Female ducts
Mullerian
Male ducts
Wolffian
wolves, like males, have hair
Mullerian
Female ducts
Wolffian
Male ducts
Embryo
5 weeks into development
Male birth hormones
Androgens
Female birth hormones
Estrogens
Gonads
Te**/Ov
Gender roles
Cultural expectations for masculine/feminine behavior
Gender typing
Process of acquiring gender role characteristics
E.g., Parents TV Upbringing Social media
Gender identity
Individual sense of “being” with regards to gender
Gender Dysphoria
Once called Gender Identity Disorder (GID)
Tra** - mismatch between gender and “gender identity”
Gender qu* - “nonbinary”
Gender neutral - neither, superset of gender qu***?
Gender fluid - Changes with time
Hejjra
India’s official third gender
Biological influences (gender identity formation)
Females with more androgens in utero are tomboyish
They don’t become “males” or homo**
Social learning theory
Gender identity formed through modeling and reinforcement
Females have more leeway to do more out-of-gender things
Gender schema theory
Gender identity formed after the child develops a schema for gender
Child learns to behave its own gender?
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Gender (stimulus variable)
Gender causes different (though not unfair) treatment
E.g., A male walks to a building, supposedly will do a double step to open door for a female, but not for a male, unless she’s a super hardcore feminist
Sexism
Prejudice leading to unfair treatment
E.g., interviewing only female babysitters because males are bad nurturers
Benevolent sexism
Unfair treatment based on positive stereotype
E.g., three females and one male on road trip, tire goes flat, and male must change it because he’s a male
Androgyny
Characteristic of possessing mostly positive traits from both genders
E.g., one can both cook and change tires
Cognitive differences between genders
None
Except males have better mental rotation abilities than females (not at all due to biology)
Emotional expression differences between genders
Males report feelings to others
Females relate feelings to others (vent)
NSSHB
Showed that males do more se** stuff than females
Origins of S***** Dysfunction
Organic dysfunction
Sociocultural dysfunction
Psychological dysfunction
