PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Personal Relationships, Dsm-5, Relational Aggression

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3105
• Professor: David Collins

Document Summary

Gender: refers to the social categories of male and female, resulting from socialization as a male or female (whats in your head). Sex: refers to the biological status of being male or female (whats in-between your legs). Gender roles: set of shared cultural expectations about gender. Gender typing: how children come to take on speci c gender roles could be a combination of biological factors, socialization, or cognition: biological factors: high level of testosterone (t) around 8th week of gestation lead to male genitalia. There is a similar effect also seen for both sexes: congenital adrenal hyperplasia (cah): a genetic condition that causes adrenal glands to overproduce androgens (male sex hormones) parentally causing individuals genitalia to develop in a masculine direction. Cah boys are not effected much, but girls are seemingly more masculine. Prenatal androgens masculinizes in uential parts of the brain. Beginning of gender identity (age 3): understand themselves as being male or female.