PSY323H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Penis Envy, Castration Anxiety, Electra Complex
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Socially shared beliefs based on individuals membership in either the male or female half of the human race. Beliefs about certain qualities assigned because of being female or male. Gender: nonphysiological aspects of being female or male - the cultural expectations for femininity and masculinity. According to matlin, sex-narrow term-inborn physiological characteristics relating to reproduction-sex chromosomes or sex organs and gender- broader term- psychological characteristics and social categories created by human culture. Theory: set of ideas about how and why things happen. The idea of equality between the sexes can be found in the early writings of the greek philosopher plato, who described women and men as having the same nature and worth and deserving the same education and legal treatment. Later, in the writings of aristotle, the idea of feminine inferiority and incompleteness was developed in detail. Aristotle claimed that the female state was an ordinary deformity and that a woman was a defective man.