PS271 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Supervillain, Externals, Learned Helplessness
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Gender-role behaviours are also acquired through observational learning: children learn which behaiovurs are expected of males and which are expected of females by watching parents, neighbors, siblings, playmates, and television characters. Personality psychologists are interested in identifying, measuring, and describing the way people typicaly act in terms of their gender-role behaviour less emotionally loaded labels. Model for measuring and identifying gender-role behaviours. Reseachers find that women tend to increase in both masculinity and feminity as they move through their middle adult years. It also challenges the assumption that a person"s gender should match his or her gender type. Androgynous is both well-adjusted masculine and feminine: a well adjusted person much have the flexibility to engage in masculine behaviours when the situation demands and in feminine behaviours when those are most appropriate. Two other explainations for the relation between gender type and well-being have been propsed and tested.
