PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pansexuality, Likert Scale, Gender Identity
6 Oct 2018
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Psychology of women: when we say women and men in a psychology context we are almost always speaking of a gender distinction, sex: a biological category. Men (xy) and women (xx) and other (which we"ll see later. : gender: refers to the social categories of male and female. Gender and gender roles are almost entirely defined by culture and vary between cultures. History of stereotypes of women and men: gender stereotypes, generalized beliefs and attitudes about masculinity and femininity. Including psychological traits and characteristics: as well as the activities appropriate to men or women. Cardinal virtue 1 and 2: piety: more natural to women than men. Other studies, including (gasp) romantic novels, would surely lead to ruin: women were fundamentally uninterested in sex but were vulnerable to seduction. The loss of purity was a fate worse than death. Such a woman was without value or hope: men were at best, prone to sin and seduction, and at worst, brutes.
