Psychology 2075 Chapter 13: Gender and Sexuality - Chapter 13.docx

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

Document Summary

Stereotype: rigid set of beliefs about a group of people that distinguishes those people from others: we become aware of these stereotypes as young as six years of age, a study shows that children who studied a picture of a woman almost always described her as appreciative, gentle, weak, soft hearted, sentimental, emotional, excitable, and meek and mild, the men in the picture we described as aggressive, strong, coarse, cruel, loud, and ambitious. Socialization: ways in which society conveys to the individual its norms or expectations for his or her behaviour: this happens during childhood, as children are taught to behave, as they will be expected to in adulthood, the more children come to identify with a particular gender, the more they are motivated to incorporate attributes associated with that gender into their self concept, parents are the earliest influence gender typed activities, toys, etc.