PSY210H1 Study Guide - Relational Aggression, Attention Seeking, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
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12/16/2012 8:31:00 am: gender stereotypes and gender roles, influences on gender stereotyping and gender-role adoption, gender identity, girls vs. boys in gender stereotyped attributes, developing non-gender stereotyped children. Gender stereotypes: widely held beliefs about characteristics deemed appropriate for males and females. Gender roles: the reflection of these stereotypes in everyday behaviour. Gender identity: is the private face of gender, refers to perception of self as relatively f or m characteristics. Gender typing: refers to any association of objects/activities/roles/traits with biological sex in ways that conform to cultural stereotypes of gender. Biological, cognitive + social factors are all involved: gender stereotypes and gender roles: instrumental-expressive dichotomy. Instrumental traits: reflecting competence, rationality and assertiveness were regarded as masculine: expressed as high status, favorable occupations, diverse opportunities. Expressive traits: emphasizing warmth, caring, sensitivity seen as feminine: opposite. Gender stereotyping in early childhood: things in daily life are categorized by kids as m or f early on, seen inflexibly boys cant like butterflies! .
