PSYC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dont, Sexual Fantasy, Homophobia
27 Mar 2016
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Gender identity: your sense of self as a man or woman (inward experience) Gender role: includes everything you feel and think that conveys to yourself and others that you are a man or a woman (outward expression: competing theories: Evolutionary or sociobiological model: reproductive pressures lead to different values and behaviors. Men cheat to spread their genetics further. Women cheat to find more support for their children. Sociocultural model: psychological differences between men and women are a social construct. The bern sex role inventory categorizes people as: masculine, feminine, androgynous, undifferentiated. Intersex: the idea of both genitals present: formally known as hermaphrodite. Chromosomes: rod-shaped structures that determine a person"s inherited characteristics: girls (xx) boys (xy, the sperm from the father determines genetic sex of the child. Chromosome variations: klinefelter"s syndrome: xxy or xxxy. Stella walsh: some xx and some xy: turner"s syndrome: x0. Embryo genetically male or female but anatomically sex neutral (1 st six weeks)
