PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - School, Sex Assignment

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Erica Refling

Document Summary

Daycare/childcare: positive experience, negative experience, when home and day care are poor. , environments shape us. Sex: biological makeup of an individual"s reproductive anatomy. Gender: cultural or social differences: values, perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes that define what it is to be a man or a woman. One"s sense of being male or female. Acceptance of membership in a particular group: gender roles. Culturally specific expectations for each gender: gender stereotypes. Belief about differences in personality traits, skills, cognitions, Transgender: varying from culturally defined gender roles and behaviours of males and females: one"s gender identity does not match with one"s assigned sex, not necessarily related to sexual orientation. We do what we think the majority of others are doing. Psychology research: evidence-based programs in schools, role in developing policy. Bullying: an interaction in which a dominant individual (the bully) repeatedly exhibits aggressive behaviour intended to cause distress to a less dominant individual (the victim)