PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Gender Role, Gender Dysphoria, Evolutionary Psychology

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 250
• Professor: Tanya Broesch

Document Summary

Assertion: tendency to take action on behalf of the self through competitive, independent, or aggressive behaviours. Affiliation: tendency to affirm connection with others through being emotionally open, empathetic, or cooperative: traditional masculine role in most societies stresses self-assertion over interpersonal affiliation. Collaboration: coordination of assertion and affiliation in behaviour, which is associated with gender-role flexibility: more common among girls. Sex biological origins for any differences between males and females. Gender social categorization as either female/male. Adaptive value: sex differences in behaviour offer reproductive advantages: male propensity for impulsivity and physical aggression resources & accesses, females tendency to build strong alliances increase maternal care increase probability offspring would survive. Criticism: not testable, rationalizes traditional gender roles. Evolved physical differences so(cid:272)ial (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:395)ue(cid:374)(cid:272)es(cid:863: me(cid:374)"s ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)al a(cid:271)ilities ga(cid:448)e the(cid:373) a(cid:374) ad(cid:448)a(cid:374)tage i(cid:374) a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ities su(cid:272)h as hu(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d combat, wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:272)hild(cid:271)ea(cid:396)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d (cid:374)u(cid:396)si(cid:374)g (cid:272)apa(cid:272)ities li(cid:373)ited (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:373)o(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d involvement. Not deterministic: role of social ecology. Criticisms: emphasize biological determinants of gender differences.