PSY 3121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Grammatical Gender, Gender Role, Rough Play
24 May 2018
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PSY3121A Dr. Mary-Theresa Howard
Stereotypes – Feminine and Masculine 09.05.18
Movie – Sex and Gender
• boys are given wings and girls are given roots
• masculinity and femininity as psychologically androgenous, not polar opposites
• boys and girls differences in play is due to social and cultural influences
o boys more likely to be involved in physical and rough play (gross motor movement); girls involved
with fine motor and social activity
o feels good b/c more likely to be useful in their future in social role context
o differences in brain development influence behavior
• masculine gender role and their physiology may be a risk factor to their natural health risks
• children see men and women dress and behave differently which is mirrored in TV/books/media
o i.e male coach and female cheerleader
• boys socialized by discovering actively understand world – they can make a difference, play outdoors
more, many friends but less intimate relationship
• girls environment is protected from experience – more structured and organized, focused on the house,
fewer friends but more intimate relationship
• change stereotypes by changing society b.c boys and girls learn by generalizing what they experience
Movie – Explore your Brain (Male and Female differences)
• Girls and boys play different at a young age
• Men are more likely to express emotion through physical actions, women are more likely to express
emotion verbally
• Women are generally faster to determine an emotion associated to a facial expression, men are slower
o Women more perceptive than men
• Male brains shrink faster in certain regions than the female brain does as an individual age
Femininity and Masculinity
Gender stereotypes refers to the beliefs associated wand personalities appropriate to women and men
Current stereotypes influenced by history
• Cult of true womenhood arose in Victorian times and held that women should be pure, pious, submissive,
and domestic
• Male sex role identity proposed that for success, men must identify with elements of the role
o Avoid feminine activities and interests, achievement orientated, suppression of emotions,
aggression, assertive
Compare physical characteristics, traits, behaviors, and occupations
• Vary independently, make judgements about one based on info of another
• Forms of interdependent network to use in making deductions based on limited info about gender-related
characteristics
Development of concept of femininity and masculinity
Infancy - can start very early and results in children being rigid for gender-related behavior
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Document Summary
Gender stereotypes refers to the beliefs associated wand personalities appropriate to women and men. Compare physical characteristics, traits, behaviors, and occupations: vary independently, make judgements about one based on info of another. Forms of interdependent network to use in making deductions based on limited info about gender-related characteristics. Children create positive stereotypes i. e mother who is caring, loving, cooks, etc. ; fathers are hard- working, aggressive, family-orientated (possibly) You are either feminine or masculine, nothing in between. Adolescence become more flexible in applying rules and allow more exceptions for individual variation: research children and adults accept elements of stereotypes and use them in decisions and judgements. Adults apply rules less strictly than children; can make personal exceptions. Attitudes interest analysis survey (1936) opposite poles. Mmpi unidimensional, attempted to measure homosexual tendencies, defines femininity in terms of responses of homosexual men.
