PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Real Sex, Gender Role, Information Processing

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Julie Desjardins

Document Summary

Sex: biological maleness or femaleness of an individual. Sex difference: an observed difference between males and females. Gender-role: pattern of behaviours that are considered appropriate for a female or male in a particular culture. Sex typing: process by which children develop a gender role. Sex differences reflect the different reproductive challenges faced by males and females in our ancestral past. Genes and hormones set gender-role development in motion; the environment completes the process. Gender roles develop as children interact with their social and cultural. Ability to categorize themselves and others as male or female. Knowledge that gender does not change with age. Notion that gender is a fixed part of ourselves. Information processing models focus on concepts such as: Cognitive representation of the characteristics of being either male or female. Cognitive representation of a familiar routine or activity that is. Environmental/learning theory usually only associated with one gender. Female newborn is healthier, less muscular, more sensitive to pain.