PSYC 3480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Genderqueer, Clitoris, Menstruation

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Noreen Stuckless

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What makes someone a woman and what makes someone a man. Missing chromosomes: or extra chromosomes (many combinations of se(cid:454) li(cid:374)ked ge(cid:374)es, many variants of sex chromosomes, few know theirs) In psychology; talk about gender roles as internalized and prescriptive what we are and what we should be should engage in gender consistent behaviour with our manifest gender. Forms of gender; as in gender identity: more often use in psychology research - the binary box; man/women or male/female, used in research, gender stereotype- genders identity: generalized expectations about the behaviors of others. How psychologist have looked at these concepts of masculinity and femininity: look at research to find out how we think about these conceptions beyond one person thinking. 3. 2 two factor models- two separate dimensions each person can have both: masculinity, low ------------------------ high, femininity, low ------------------------ high. Janet spence & bob helmreich 1975: personal attributes questionnaire (paq, tendency to take, typing of individuals, femininity -