PSY311H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Typical Male, Psychoanalytic Theory, Cognitive Development
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Developmental timeline: infancy-distinguish faces by sex, 2 years- label by sex: being male or female as an important social category, 3 years: sex-stereotyping in toy preference. In egalitarian family, raise children the same: 4 years: some rigid stereotypes about occupations. Ie/truck driver, policemen are men, teachers are women. Black and white world, still developing understanding of the world. Will later learn to make exceptions: 5 years: association of personality traits with sex. Undifferentiated: sex: biological dimension of being male or female, gender: sociocultural dimension of being male or female. If from a traditional culture, clear that people"s who"s sex is males have certain expectations and female have another set. Men work outside the home and bring income where women tend to family and don"t bring income. Ie/in our culture women have long hair and men have short hair: toy preferences- by age 3 as a clear pattern of choices emerges, although boys develop this pattern quicker than girls.
