PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Social Prescribing, The Beat Room, Gender Identity
19 Mar 2014
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Chromosomes, physical identity, and hormones: a person"s social and cultural identity. Gender role standards: behaviour, value, or motive a society considers more appropriate for a specific sex. Expressive role: social prescription, usually directed toward females, that one should be cooperative, kind, nurturnant, and sensitive to the needs of others, typical female. Instrumental role: social prescription, usually directed towards males, that one should be dominant, independent, assertive, competitive, and goal oriented, typical male. Gender typing: process by which children acquire gender roles. Small but reliable psychological differences between sexes: verbal ability. Girls have better verbal abilities than boys. Develop verbal skills at an earlier age. Display verbal advantage son tests of reading comprehension and speech fluency: visual / spatial abilities. Females outscore males on math tests that require verbal strategies. Abilities to mentally manipulate or otherwise draw inferences about pictorial information. In adolescence boys show advantage over girls on tests of arithmetic reasoning.
