Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Trans Woman, Gender Bender, Cisgender

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

Document Summary

By age 2. 5, most kids can correctly identify their own gender. Gender is one of the most basic of status characteristics (in terms of individual. 2 gender system some cultures have 3 or 4 genders. Gender role: set of norms (or culturally defined expectations) defining how people of 1 gender ought to behave. 2 situation: of course, people don"t process info by using gender schema in every situation we"re in affect how likely we process info in terms of. *both our own gender roles (i. e. , how tradition we are) & the. Scripts: cognitive frameworks for how people are expected to behave in social situations. Heterosexual script is the most pervasive sexual script in north america (aka traditional sexual script or tss) Tss specifies how women & women are expected to behave in (heterosexual) sexual situations. Research suggests that traditional script is still the most common dating script (contrary to belief that gender roles are now egalitarian)