Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sex Reassignment Surgery, David Reimer, Midlife Crisis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

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What is identity: gender, ethnicity, social roles, personality, values, etc , not a straightforward concept. Parenting also contributes to children developing a gender identity. A sense of (cid:498)femaleness(cid:499) or (cid:498)maleness(cid:499) that becomes a central aspect of our personal identity. Gender constancy: the understanding that being male or female is a permanent part of a person, develops around age 6. Belief that the male is the norm. Our society favours masculine characteristics and behaviours. So, man and woman might exhibit same behaviour, but be perceived differently. Widely shared beliefs about males" and females" abilities, personality traits, and social. Males: instrumentality orientation toward action and accomplishment (ex. Females: expressiveness orientation toward emotion and relationship (ex. As nature made him: the boy who was raised a girl. During circumcision, the penis was burnt off of one of the boys gender reassignment. Twin boys, they are genetically the same surgery, became a girl (bruce turned to brenda)