PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Bigger, Stronger, Faster*, Secondary Sex Characteristic, Gender Role
19 Feb 2014
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Gender stereotypes: beliefs about how males and females differ in personality traits, interests, and behaviors. Most adults associate different traits with men and women. In north america, males are seen as instrumental, women as expressive. Instrumental traits: dominant, aggressive, independent, competitive: expressive traits: nurturing, emotional, sensitive. Not shared worldwide: american views on gender are extreme: gender differences/roles are not innate. Culture or social influences have something to do with it instead. At 12 months, children will look equally at both gender-specific toys (therefore, showing no preference) At 18 months, they"ll attend to the same-sex toy. At 2 years of age, children will pay more attention to videos of boys playing with. Barbie"s than trucks, because it is not consistent with what they would expect. By age 5, us children judge 1/3 of traits as stereotypically as adults do; by age 11, 90% During elementary-school years, children learn that traits and occupations associated with males have higher status.
