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Developmental Psychology
Gender Roles, Media, Peers etc.
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
12/13/2008

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Gender Stereotypes
Definition
Are widley held beliefs about characteristics deemed appropriate for males and females.
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Gender Roles
Definition
Are the reflection of those stereotypes in everyday behavior.
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Gender Indenty
Definition
The private face of gender, identifying oneself as feminine or masculine in characteristics.
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Gender Typing
Definition
Refers to the broad association of objects, activities, roles, or traits with biologicals sex in ways that conform to cultural stereotypes of gender.
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Instrumental Traits
Definition
Competence, assertiveness, rationality were regarded as masculine traits.
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Expressive Traits
Definition
Emphasizing warmth, sensitivity and caring were regarded as feminine.
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Gender Stereotype flexibility
Definition
Overlap of male and female characteristics.
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Androgony
Definition
Scoring high on both masculine and feminine personality characteristics.
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Gender Constancy
Definition
A full understanding of the biological permanance of gender, which combines three understandings: gender labeling, gender consistency and gender stability.
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Gender Labeling
Definition
During preeschool years children can label the sex of themselves and others.
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Gender Stability
Definition
In this stage children have a partial understanding of the permanance of sex, in that they grasp is stability over time.
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Gender Consistency
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In late preschool years and early school years, children grasp the fact that gender is biologically based and doesn't change when someone cross-dresses or engages in non-traditional activities.
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Gender Intensification
Definition
Increased gender stereotyping of attitudes and behavior, and movement toward a more traditional gender indentity.
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Gender Schema theory
Definition
Is an information processing approach that explains how enviornmental pressures and children's cognitions work together to shape gender typing. It also integrates the various elements of gender typing - gender stereotyping, gender identity and gender role adoption - into a unified picture of how masculine and feminine orientations emerge and are often strongly maintained.
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