3 - Gender

Question 1

Explain what is meant by ‘androgyny’

Answer 1

Possessing a balanced combination / mixture of masculine and feminine traits. Or possessing high levels of both masculine and feminine traits

Question 1

Explain what is meant by a sex role stereotype

Answer 1

A set of ideas about behaviours/traits/qualities/characteristics that are appropriate/expected for males and for females

Question 2

Name 2 typical sex chromosome patterns

Answer 2

XX -female, XY - males

Question 3

Name 3 hormones involved in sex and gender development

Answer 3

testosterone, oestrogen and oxytocin

Question 4

Name 2 atypical sex chromosome patterns

Answer 4

Klinefelter’s syndrome (XXY chromosomes) and Turner’s syndrome (XO)

Question 5

Name 2 cognitive explanations of gender development

Answer 5

Kohlberg’s theory; gender schema theory

Question 6

Name the stages of one cognitive explanation of kholbergs theory

Answer 6

gender identity, gender stability and gender constancy

Question 7

Name 4 features of the psychodynamic explanation of gender development

Answer 7

Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, Oedipus complex; Electra complex; identification and internalisation.

Question 8

Name 2 biological explanations of gender dysphoria and 2 social explanations of gender dysphoria

Answer 8

Biological - Transexual gene, brain-sex theory, phantom limb and cross-wiring,environmental effects-pesticides
Social - mental illness, mother-son relationships, father-daughter relationships