PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tomboy, Gender Role, 18 Months
2 Feb 2017
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Gender identity: identifying and accepting the self as male or female. Gender roles: behaviours typically associated with males or females. Behaviour and identity are separate on so many levels. Development during childhood: infants as young as seven months can distinguish between women"s and men"s faces, but they attend primarily to hair length as the distinguishing cue. This is shown in both preference and attention studies. However, infants at seven months can barely sit up let alone have a gender bias. Infants just pay attention to something that is different, the novel item. For example, a woman in a group of men will be the novel item , or a if a man with long hair is in a group of women with short hair will be paid more attention to. 24 months: infants start to notice gender typical activities based on what happens within the home.
