HDFS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Fetus, Role Theory, Karyotype

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS201
• Professor: Palkovitz Rob

Document Summary

11/14/2016 4:23:00 am: individual differences in genetic foundations coupled with environmental variability and differences in reaction ranges lead to. Ethical dilemmas: when evaluating/facilitating development or life opportunities, who decides what is best, client centered vs. professional expert centered, policies and laws vs. Individual differences: covering litigation vs. best interest, assessment of status and progression. Gender differences or similarities: arguments for genders similarities, males and females are similar on most, but not all, psychological variables, more alike than different, more overlap than distinctions expect in outliers. Documented sex differences: verbal: female (slightly higher, spatial: males higher, math: males highest and lowest, aggression and riskiness: males, activity: males, vulnerability: males, compliant, tactful, cooperative: females, nurturant, empathic, anxious: females. Development of sex and gender: as a male and female people develop from fetuses, into infants, toddlers, children, adolescents, and adults, there are many levels of sex and gender differences, genes, chromosomes, gonads, hormones, anatomy, psyche.