PSYC203 Lecture Notes - Sick Role, Chest Pain, Breast Implant
6 Oct 2013
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Gender: a euphemism for the sex of a human being, often intended to. Typically operationalized as a chromosomal dichotomy: xx = female versus. Abnormality = not sticking to the correct end of the gender roles (female) unmitigated communion: complete focus on others (male) unmitigated agency: complete focus on self continuum for one"s physiological sex. (extreme ends of the gender roles continuum) Transgenderism: *when an individual"s+ identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender, but combines or moves between these. Transvestism: the condition of having an abnormal desire to dress in the clothes of the opposite sex. gender dysphoria. Transsexualism: an overwhelming desire to belong to the opposite sex = Criteria for gender dysphoria: incongruence between one"s experienced/expressed gender and assigned, clinically significant distress or impairment in social life, school/work, or gender (for at least 6 months) other important areas of functioning.
