PSY210H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Ejaculation, Meta-Analysis, Adrenarche
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Psy210: chapter 15 - gender development gender-typed: traditionally associated with a given"s person"s gender cross-gender typed: traditionally associated with the gender other than that of a given person gender-typing: process of gender socialization and development. 1st biological approach (including evolutionary psychology, biosocial theory and neuroscience approaches): According to evolutionary psychology theory, behavioural di erences between males and females served adaptive functions in our evolutionary past and have been passed down as inherited behavioural dispositions. For example, direct aggression in males is interpreted as an advantage in mating competition, whereas nurturance in females is viewed as facilitating the survival of o spring. Biosocial theory focuses on the impact of evolved physical di erences between females (child-bearing and nursing capacities) and males (greater strength, speed, and size) in relation to the social ecology. 2nd approach: cognitive and motivational in uences on gender development, (includes cognitive developmental theory, gender schema theory, social identity theory, and social cognitive theory. )
