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exploring psychology chp 3
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Psychology
Not Applicable
06/14/2009

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Chromosome/DNA
Definition
  • Chromosomes 23 pairs
  • deoyribonucleic accid
  • xx female
  • xy male
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Gender
Definition
  • Men- prefered attractive, physical feature, young and health female
  • womeon- preferred resouce, social stuats males
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Twin Studies
Definition
  • twins that lived separate and did not know of one another
  • grown men and women
  • when asked questions about there personalities and their likes they had the extremely similiar responces
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temperaments
Definition
  • it is an emotinal excitability whether reactive intense and fidgety or easygoing, quite, and placid
  • in born personality dispostion
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culture
Definition
  • intergenerational values belifs and tradition of range group of people
  • it is behavior, ideas, attitude, value, and tradition shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to another.
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gender identity
Definition
  • our sense of being male or female
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social leanring theory
Definition
  • assumes that children learn behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished by people in their lives
  • but modeling and rewarding is not done by parents along, becuase the differences in the way parents rear boys and girls aren't enough explain gender-typing
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Evolutionary psychologist
Definition
  • the study of evolution of behavior and the mind using principles of natural selection
  • study now natural selection gene combo and mutation has shaped our universal behavioral tendencies

 

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adoption studies
Definition
  • two groups of relatives: Genetic (biological parents and sibling) and environmental (adoptive parents and siblings)
  • environmental factors shared by family's children have virtually no impact on their personalities
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Interactions
Definition
  • it the effect of one factor that depends on another factor
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Gender Roles
Definition
  • expectations about the way men and women behave
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gender type
Definition
aquiring traditional male or female roles
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Gender scheme theory
Definition
assume that childrean learn from their culture a concept of what t means to be male or female
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