PSYC 3480 Lecture 3: Chapter 3-textbook Notes
3 Nov 2016
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Infancy and childhood: children and adults conceptions of gender are often surprisingly different. Gender typing: how children acquire their knowledge about gender and how they develop their gender related personality characteristics. Both the social learning and cognitive developmental approached work together to account for children development of gender typing. Prenatal period: sex organs develop during this time, before birth. Infancy: the period between birth and 18 months of life. At conception, an egg with 23 chromosomes combines with sperm which has. Together they form a single cell that contains 23 chromosome pairs. Egg from mother supplies x sex chromosome. If x chromosome from father and x chromosome from mother fertilize, the. Xx represents the chromosome pair and child will be female. If y chromosome from the father and x chromosome from the mother fertilize, then xy would represent chromosome pair and child would be male.
