PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Gender Role, Cognitive Development, Suggestibility
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Gender typing: how kids acquire values, motivates, and behaviours considered appropriate for their gender by their culture. Gender-based beliefs: ideas and expectations about what is appropriate behaviours for males and females. Gender stereotypes: beliefs that members of a society hold about how m/f should act. Gender roles: the behaviours expected by m/f in a given culture reflection of a stereotype in everyday life. Early in life, children develop gender identity: perception of oneself as m/f. Develop gender-role preferences: desires to possess certain gender-typical characteristics. Late childhood/adolescence sexual preferences: preference for same or opposite sex romantic partners. Physical, motor, and sensory development girls tend to develop faster and tend to not be miscarried or die at birth (double x is a protective measure) Cognitive development: girls: verbal, boys: visual-spatial. Social and emotional development: boys are more aggressive, girls are a little sneakier. Atypical development boys tend to have more defects.
