Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Cisgender, Metoidioplasty, Hormone Therapy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: William Fisher

Document Summary

Psychology 2075 chapter 13: gender and sexuality. Gender role: a set of norms, or culturally prescribed expectations that define how people of one gender ought to behave. Many adult women and men do behave as gender roles say they should; it is a result of gender role socialization. Parents have an early, important influence, from buying dolls for girls and footballs for boys. Ethnocultural communities: men are expected to be the head of the family and women are expected to be the caregivers, dating and premarital sex are accepted and often encouraged in sons but not tolerated in daughters. It is not acceptable for females to engage in premarital or extramarital sexual activity, premarital sex is discouraged for males, extramarital sex by men may be accepted. Males are generally more aggressive than females. In communicating, women tend to self-disclose more than men. Men more likely to have masturbated than women.