PSYCH 100 Lecture 13: 10/25

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: Mattitiyahu Zimbler

Document Summary

Sex is biological what parts you have. Gender has psychological meaning, state of being male or female. Gender role- set of expectations defined by a particular society that indicate what is appropriate for males and females. Can adopt both gender roles at once. Doesn"t view world in make female terms. What does it mean to feel male or female. Hostile most women fail to appreciate all that men do for them . Women seek to gain power by getting control over men . Most women interpret innocent remarks or acts as being sexist . Women should be cherished and protected by men . Many women have a quality of purity that few men possess. A good women ought to be set on a pedestal by her man . When involved in a conversation and women explains something correctly but men jump into conversation and correct what they said even though they explained perfectly just because they"re women.