PSYC 1010 Final: Exam #2 Complete Book Notes

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Differentiation= children learn how people are different from each other and how they are different from other people. Morphological sex= possession of a vagina and ovaries or a penis and testes. Gender role= society has different expectations about how the 2 sexes should act: parents talk to their male and female kids differently= joey vs. Janie : when kids play with toys deemed inappropriate= disapproval, girls are allowed more latitude, margaret mead= new guinea and arapesh. Both men and women expected to be assertive, aggressive, and emotionally unresponsive: androgenized females= congenital adrenal hyperplasia (cah) Born with ovaries and a uterus but with external genitals that resemble a male"s. Girls end up being tomboys: men and women are more alike than different= when there are differences between the sexes it is a difference of averages. Neither sex is more intelligent than the other. Males do outperform women on math ability.