PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Remember (Big Bang Album), Gender Role, Double Standard
10 May 2018
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PSY3121 lecture 3, May 9, 2018
Video –men women and the brain- difference between the genders (1hr)
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Lecture – Stereotypes
• Usually the thing that research uses because it explains differences
• Most people however consider stereotypes as negative
• But they can be positive- for instance children seeing things like parents working hard, cooking,
providing for the home etc – these are stereotypes
• Gender stereotypes- definition, development, aspects- can be positive or negative, however
often starts very early on
• Femininity and masculinity- roles and stereotypes, tends to be one or the other- nothing in
between
• Functions- simplifies cognitions, rationalization, differential power
• While soethig’s, like firefightig has ee see as ale oly hoeer, woman have proven
equally capable of doing the job
• Development of stereotypes- age, acceptance and exceptions- strong baby boy and petit little
girl when both babies are the same weight example
• Perceptions- influence
• Instrumental traits tend to be men
• Expressive traits tend to be women
• However there are outliers on both sides
• Overall people tend to have a preference for masculine
Concepts of fem and mas:
• Preference
• Role identification
• Knowledge of role standards
• Measured – behavioural- goes back to personality
• Androgyny : measurement, acceptance, instrumental and expressive- traits of both
Biology and gender
• Development – determination and complications
• When an embryo begins to form after conception all the genes are there to give its sex
• However as time goes on it remains undifferentiated until it gets a boost of hormones that give
was it should become- estrogen or testosterone
• There can be complications- he horoes ad geotype do’t ath
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Document Summary
Video men women and the brain- difference between the genders (1hr) Instrumental traits tend to be men: expressive traits tend to be women, however there are outliers on both sides, overall people tend to have a preference for masculine. Concepts of fem and mas: preference, role identification, knowledge of role standards, measured behavioural- goes back to personality, androgyny : measurement, acceptance, instrumental and expressive- traits of both. Issues: prenatal development , viability- males more risky, hormonal abnormalities, fetal development, sex chromosomal abnormalities, adolescence and young adulthood: growth, secondary sex characteristics (girls get periods. Life expectancy- women live longer: middle and later adulthood, changes in appearance and physiology (pre menopausal, around 20 start to decrease estrogen, attitudes to menopause, double standard of aging. Lateralization- women tend to use both sides of their brain- thus it is showing that women have less brain volume and perform the same tasks more efficiently than men.
