PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Prenatal Hormones And Sexual Orientation, Prefrontal Cortex, Gender Role

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3105
• Professor: David Collins

Document Summary

Biology, sex, and gender: sex differences and gender differences, gender roles and gender typing, effects of prenatal hormones on fetus, gender differences in amygdala, prefrontal cortex, prenatal testosterone levels and masculinity, contributions, interactions of genetics, environment. Girls and boys with higher levels of testosterone engaged in more male-typical play. One such study found that genetic factors accounted for a large part of the variability in the children"s gender behaviours. Girls start to worry about their looks and figures, and boys begin studying their biceps. In this model, personal factors, such as thoughts, desires, and feelings, interact with learned behavior patterns and social influences to produce tendencies to act in particular ways: we observe the same-sex and how they do things. We develop a personal set of gender-role standards: self-efficacy (the belief that one has the resources to carry out some behavior or achieve some goal.