PSYC21H3 Chapter Notes -Muscular Development, Bad Biology, Amygdala

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Gender stereotypes: belief that members of a culture hold about acceptable or appropriate attitudes, activities, traits for each gender. Girls learn to walk earlier and reach puberty at younger ages, maintain more eye contact, have better verbal skills, more nurturing and sensitive, kind, considerate. Boys have advantages in muscular development, visual-spatial abilities that allow them to read maps, aim at targets. Girls preferred dolls and stuffed animals, asked for more clothing, jewelry. Boys preferred more manipulative toys, vehicles and requested for more sports equipment and action figures. Changes in adolescence and adulthood (p. 329) Gender intensification: young ppl shifting toward more typical gender-stereotyped patterns of behavior due to pressures from parents or interest in a romantic relationship. Women"s expressive characteristics: nurturance, sympathy, concern with feelings, orientation toward children. Men"s instrumental characteristics: task and occupation orientations. Stability of gender typing adult behavior can be predicted more gender-typed interests in childhood. Parents and peers condemn boys for crying.

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