FRHD 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Oedipus Complex, Observational Learning, Heredity
9 Aug 2016
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Chapter 5: gender identity and gender roles page #125-152: gender the psychological state of being female or male, as influenced by cultural concepts of gender-appropriate behaviour. Gender is distinct from anatomic sex, which is based on the physical differences between females and males: gender typing the process by which children acquire behaviours deemed appropriate for their sex. Prenatal sexual differentiation: sexual differentiation the process by which males and females develop distinct reproductive anatomy, chromosomes a rodlike structure found in the nucleus of every living cell. In female fetuses, the relative absence of androgens causes degeneration of the wolffian ducts and prompts development of female sex organs. Week 7: the mullerian ducts evolve into fallopian tubes and the uterus, and the upper two-thirds of the vagina, although female sex hormones are crucial in puberty, they"re not involved in fetal sexual differentiation.
