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Gender Exam 1
First exam
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
01/30/2008

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hostile sexism
Definition
dominance
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benevolent sexism
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protective
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neosexism
Definition
(modern) denial that women are still targets of sexism
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Old-fashioned sexism
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openly endorses stereotypes
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psychoanalytical theories of Freud
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emphasized the importance of unconscious motivations in personality development
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oral (first year)
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first stage of Freud
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anal (second year)
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second stage of Freud
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Phallic (3-5 yrs)
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Third stage of Freud- Impulses derived from gender-specific body parts
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Latency (5-puberty)
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The fourth stage of Freud- impulses surpressed
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genital (puberty to now)
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fifth stage of Freud
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gender role strain
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difficulty in conforming to expected gender toles because such roles are often contradictory and inconsistent
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Social Structure theories
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power/status differences exist between m/w in societies and division of labor by sex
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social role
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m/w expected to have the qualities that fit them for the tasks they normally carry out
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cognitive developmental theory
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proposes that gender, like other concepts, can't be learned until a child reaches a particular stage of intellectual development
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interactive
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people adjust to the expectations of others, in social settings
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anthropomorphism
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use human termonology to describe animal behavior
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ethnocentrism
Definition
applying the assumptions and terms of one's own culture to other cultures.
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androcentric norms
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apply male behaviors as the norm to compare women to
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androgyny
Definition
merging of masculine and feminine principles
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heterosexism
Definition
assuming heterosexual norms on everyone else
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continuity theory  
Definition
people direct different treatment towards boys and girls
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instrumentality
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orientation toward action, accomplishment and leadership
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expressiveness
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orientation toward emotion and relationships
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descriptive
Definition
what they're like
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prescriptive
Definition
SHOULD be like
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gender schema theory
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independent difference in reliance on the gender schema stem from difference in the degree to which the gender dichotomy is emphasized in socialization
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devaluation
Definition
parents lack of respect for a child as unique, worthwhile
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biosocial theory
Definition
interactive relations between the physical attributes of men and women and social contexts in which they live
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logical positivism
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truth is truth, assume everything you read is true

 

-reality is independent of the knower and can be discerned "objectively" under the proper conditions 

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social contructionism
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impossible to discover truth because there is no such thing
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narrative approach
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info from independent gives the research participant the opportunity to react to the researcher's interpretation of the participants life story
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