Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Prejudice, Sexual Differentiation, Prenatal Development

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Depend on interviews & questionnaires volunteers are more liberal than in reality . Respondents may shade truth about sex lives b/c of shame, embarrassment, boasting, wishful thinking. Identity: clear, stable sense of who is one is in a larger society. Transgendered: when person"s biological identity doesn"t match mental sense of gender (i. e. woman in a man"s body) +ve body image greater sexual activity | higher sexual satisfaction | fewer sexual problems. People taught what is right and wrong culture specific; varies with gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status: erotic preferences (within limits imposed by sexual orientation and values) Sexual differentiation: prenatal period, biological developments male/female fetus. 3 months prenatally, hormonal secretions gonads: sex glands different sexual hormones: Both hormones present in both sexes; sex depends on proportion (but testosterone is main determinant) Androgens: the principal class of male sex hormones (testosterone is one of them) Estrogens: the principal class of female sex hormones.