PSYC 3480 Chapter 3: The Psychology of Women Chapters (3,4,5)

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Noreen Stuckless

Document Summary

Chapter ( infancy and childhood: children and adults conceptions of gender are often different, gender typing: includes how children acquire their knowledge about gender and how they develop their gender-related personality characteristics, preference, skills, behaviours, and self-concepts. Background on gender development: prenatal period: where sex organs, and other biological components develop. Infancy: the period between birth and 18 months. Typical prenatal development: after 6 weeks of conception, female and male embryos are identical in characteristics, the female system has two sets of primitive internal reproductive systems. Four additional processes then lead to the differentiation of females and males (1) the development of internal reproduction (2) the development of gonads (3) the production of hormones and (4) he development of the external genitals. This is usually discovered at the time of menstruation. Parental preferences about sex of children: several decades families preferred boys over girls, however parents are more likely to express pride following a boy, and happiness when a girl,