CHAD 168 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gender Role, Mirror Neuron, Observational Learning

• School: SJSU
• Department: Child and Adolescent Development, Department of
• Course: CHAD 168
• Professor: Kristine Connell

Document Summary

Terms sex and gender used interchangeably in our society but they are supposed to mean 2 different things. Sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women. xx female xy - male. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women. Hormones and social behavior: contribution of hormones to social behavior demonstrated in animal studies. When pregnant monkeys are injected with testosterone during the second quarter of pregnancy, female offspring exhibit social behavior patterns characteristic of male monkeys (e. g. , rough-and-tumble play) When male hormones are injected into normal female monkeys after birth, these females also become more assertive. Gender differences and the brain: amygdala plays a major role in processing emotions. Men have a larger amygdala than women, but women have a relatively larger orbital-frontal region, which is responsible for modulating input to the amygdala.