PSY 2105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Gender Role, Real Sex, Information Processing

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Julie Desjardins

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Chapter 16 gender role development and sex differences. Sex: biological maleness or femaleness of an individual. Sex difference: an observed difference between males and females. Gender-role: pattern of behaviours that are considered appropriate for a female or male in a particular culture. Sex typing: process by which children develop a gender role. Evolutionary approach: sex differences reflect the different reproductive challenges faced by males and females in our ancestral past. Psychobiological approach: genes and hormones set gender-role development in motion; the environment completes the process. Gender roles develop as children interact with their social and cultural environment. Stage theor(cid:455) suggests that (cid:272)hildre(cid:374) develop : gender identification. Ability to categorize themselves and others as male or female: gender stability. Knowledge that gender does not change with age: gender constancy. Notion that gender is a fixed part of ourselves. I(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) pro(cid:272)essi(cid:374)g (cid:373)odels fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)epts su(cid:272)h as . Gender schema: cognitive representation of the characteristics of being either male or female.