PSYCH 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Cortisone, Rough Play
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Lecture outline: lecture 9 gender role development in. Definition of gender typing the process of developing gender roles, or gender-linked preferences and behaviors valued by the larger society. Males instrumental role/make it happen role (ex. Gender identity the knowledge that one is either a boy or a girl (generally have this sense by about 2 or 3) Provides image of oneself as relatively masculine or feminine. Discordance: disorders of sex development; gender variant; atypical. Gender dyspgoria: distress resulting from incongruence between experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender. Gender role stereotypes ideas about what males and females are supposed to be like learned associations of thing with men and things with women. Gender-typed behavior children"s tendency to favor same-sex activities over those associated with the other sex. Rigidity stems from persistent gender divisions in environment and cognitive immaturity. Children don"t yet realize that characteristics associated with sex do not determine sex. 1: boys are more rigid in their gender typing than girls.
