PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Relational Aggression, Mass Media, Fetus

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

Document Summary

Lecture 18 gender-role developments and sex differences. Sex: biological maleness of femaleness of an individual. Sex difference: an observed difference between males and females. Sex typing: process by which children develop a gender role. Evolutionary and biological approaches: evolutionary approach: sex differences reflect the different reproductive challenges faced by males/females in our ancestral past. We are either going to have challenges or things that we are better at than the other gender. It is possible that the things that happened in our ancestral past are consistent with the things that happen in our actions. Women are attracted to males that are able to protect and provide for the family through physical attributes: psychobiological approach: genes and hormones set gender-role development in motion; the environment completes the process. We have an idea of who we are based on our gender, but our. Cognitive-developmental approach: stage theory suggests that children develop.