PSYC 3404 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Grammatical Gender, Role Theory, Gender Role

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3404
• Professor: Vanessa Castro

Document Summary

Gender: characteristics of people as females or males. Gender roles: expectations that prescribes how females and males should act, think, feel (ex: girls like pink, women should cook: gender role stereotyping: overgeneralizations about what men and women are like or should be. Gender typing: process by which children acquire the thoughts, feelings, and (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iors that are (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidered (cid:862)appropriate(cid:863) for their ge(cid:374)der i(cid:374) a parti(cid:272)ular (cid:272)ulture. Gender rigidity increases between ages 4-6 (ex: they insist on having things that are particular to their specific gender) Gender constancy is developed around 5-7 years old: bem study: 40% of participants with genital knowledge showed gender constancy. Boys: earlier and more intense gender socialization, more difficult time learning masculine gender roles. Girls: more flexibility in gender roles. Gender dysphoria: feelings of discomfort with incongruency in own gender identity (distress) Trans: gender you are identified as now is not the same as what you were born with. Increase intolerance of deviance in gender role expectations.