Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Casual Sex, Physical Attractiveness, David Buss

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: William Fisher

Document Summary

Men and women are similar in their attitudes and behaviours toward sexuality. A gender differences is primarily a group difference. If behaviours are different between group of males and females it is decided that there is a gender difference. A summary of male attitudes is different than female, not every male. To find the gender difference you find the difference between the 2 means. Although the chart shows that men masturbate more frequently, this does not mean that all males do. Compatible theories: gender schema what makes a man a man or a woman a woman. Influences how we conceptualize gender as male or female. Social learning theory: how we learn these schemas & gender and sex, operant conditioning rewards and punishments for certain behaviour, prevalent in media ex. Disney characters succeed because they"re beautiful and men want them. Gender similarity hypothesis: men and women should be quite similar in behaviour and attitudes when it comes to sex.