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Chapter 8 - Lifespan
Sex Role Developement
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Psychology
Graduate
05/22/2012

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gender identity
Definition

Awareness of own gender assignment and understanding of its own meaning

1st step in process of identity

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gender stability
Definition

2nd step in process of identity information

ones gender category stays the same

 

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gender consistency
Definition

one appearance was changed to resemple the oppisity sex

3rd step in process of identity

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congenital adrenal hyperplasia
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biological females with two x chromosomes are exposed to high levels of androgens during prenatal and postnatal developement
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intersex
Definition
pg 253
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gender steriotypes
Definition
males and females have different behavioral tendancies and some people believe that there are major differences in personality traits between the sexes
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meta analysis
Definition
results from the large no. of studies on the same question
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rough and tumble play
Definition
good natured physical roughness
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collaborative or affiliative speech
Definition
childrens responses are keys to what someone else has said
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tomboyism
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playing with boys and preferring boys toys
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gender intensification
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one ways young teens cope with he demands of establishing a adult identity
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gender schemas
Definition
influencing the behavior of children and adults
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oepidus complex
Definition
boys are buffetted by temptest of motives and emotions
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electra complex
Definition

direct sexual desires towards fathers

they experience penus envy

a desire o have what they naively asume is the greaer genital pleaures

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social dosage effect
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whe children spend more time in same gender groups showed greater increase in gender related behaviors
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sociometry
Definition
the classic way of accessing social competence
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sociometric categories

read page 269 - 271

Definition

children are classified within these groups

popular, average, neglected, rejected and controversal

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rejected aggresive
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rejected because they go against the group
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homophily
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a degree of simularities among the group
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influence and selection
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groups are formed based on this.

page 274

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rejected withdrawn
Definition
withdraw from the group
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confirmation bias
Definition
pg 281
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