PSYC 3480 Chapter 3: Psychology of Women Textbook 3 Notes

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Noreen Stuckless

Document Summary

Psychology of women chapter 3: infancy and childhood: children"s and adult"s conceptions of gender are often surprisingly different, gender typing includes how children acquire their knowledge about gender and how they develop their. 1 gender-related personality characteristics, preferences, skills, behaviours, and self-concepts. Prenatal sex development: at conception, an egg with 23 chromosomes combines with a sperm, which also has 23 chromosomes. The father"s sperm, which fertilizes the egg, contains either an x chromosome or a y chromosome. If an x chromosome from the father fertilizes the egg, then xx represents a female. In about the third month after conception, the fetus"s hormones encourage further sex differentiation, including the development of the external genitals: in males, the testes secrete two substances. One of these, the mullerian inhibiting hormone, shrinks the (female) mullerian ducts. The testes also secrete androgen, one of the male sex hormones.