Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Sex In Film, Sexual Script Theory, Gender Role

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

Document Summary

Gender and sexuality: by the age 2. 5, most children can correctly identify their gender, gender is important in the individual interactions with people and the position we hold in society. If the (cid:272)hild does(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) thei(cid:396) ge(cid:374)de(cid:396), the(cid:455) (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) ho(cid:449) to interact with a person and curious until they can ferret out some clue as to whether the person is a man or a woman. Canada has 2 rigid gender systems (male and female) Gender schema theory: gender schema: set of ideas (behaviours, personality, appearance) that we associate with males and females. It causes us to dichotomize information based on gender. Traditional sexual script: scripts: cognitive frameworks for how people are expected to behave in social situations, traditional sexual script: specifies how men and women are expected to behave in (heterosexual) sexual situations, e. g. As such, men are seen as having strong sexual needs and being highly motivated to engage in sexual activity at any opportunity.