Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Ender Wiggin, Casual Sex, Orgasm

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: William Fisher

Document Summary

By age two and a half children can correctly identify their own gender. Gender role: a set of norms, or culturally defined expectation, that define how people of one gender ought to behave. Stereotype: a rigid set of beliefs about a group of people that distinguishes them from others and is applied to all members of that group. Heterosexuality is viewed as an important part of gender roles. A gender schema is a set of ideas (about behaviours, personality, appearance, and so on) that we associate with males and females. Causes us to dichotomize information based on information based on gender. Causes us to distort or fail to remember information that is stereotype-inconsistent. Scripts are cognitive frameworks for how people are expected to behave in social situations. Traditional sexual script (tss) specifies how men and woman are expected to behave in (heterosexual) sexual situations.