PSYCH 3GG3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Spatial Navigation, Gamete, Ejaculation
10 Dec 2018
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Gender roles in the eea: men and women experienced different selection pressures in the eea, answering to different problems and priorities, social and familial divisions of labour, specialized proving. Is not paired: all dominant, no recessive, sex-linked disorders, the y, the smallest, doesn"t recombine, doesn"t do much. Understanding gender: shortly after entering toddlerhood, children begin to show distinct patterns of gender development, by their 2nd-3rd birthday they typically know which gender group they belong to. Infants can discriminate between male and female voices as early as 6 months. Infants can tell the difference between photos of men and women by 3-4 months: habituation paradigm infants look longer at female faces when habituated to a male face habituated to a male face. Increased gender rigidity: by the age of 3 they use gender terms to categorize and label their own gender and the gender of others.
