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| All features that a society associates with or considers appropriate for being men and women |
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| Patterns of behavior that females and males should adopt in a particular society |
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| Overgeneralized and largerly inaccurate beliefs about what males and females are like |
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| Orientation that emphasizes connectedness to others and includes traits of emotionality and sensitivity to others |
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| Orientation toward individual action and achievement that emphasizes traits of dominance, independence, assertiveness, and competitiveness |
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| Analyze and explore how things work |
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| Gender similarities hypothesis |
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| States that "males and females are similar on most, but not all, psychological variables" |
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| Differences in the roles that women and men play in society do a lot to create and maintain gender stereotypes |
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| Separating themselves into boys' and girls' peer groups and interacting far more often with their own sex than with the other sex |
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| Gender differences may be magnified by hormonal changes associated with puberty and increased pressure to conform to gender roles |
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| Biological events influence the development of boys and girls. Also focuses on ways in which early biological developments influence how people react to a child and suggest that these social reactions have much to do with children's assuming gender roles |
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| Girls prenatally exposed to excess androgens |
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| An understanding of what it means to be a boy or a girl, man or woman |
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| Understanding that gender identity is stable over time - boys become men and girls become women |
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| Realization that sex is stable across situations |
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| Organized sets of beliefs and expectations about males and females that influence the kinds of information they will attend to and remember |
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| Gender-typing process page 410 |
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| Balancing or bleding of both agentic traits and communal traits |
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| The requirement that mothers and fathers adopt different roles to raise children successfully |
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| Men and woment retain their gender-typed qualities but add qualities traditionally associated with the other sex |
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| Posttraumatic stress disorder |
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| Clinical disorder, involving nightmares, flashbacks and feelings of helplessness and anxiety |
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| Preference for sexual partners of the same or other sex |
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| Double standard (context of sex) |
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| Sexual behavior that is viewed as appropriate for mals is considered inappropriate for females |
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