PSYCH 3AB3 Chapter 8: Topic 4 - Gender Development
8 Dec 2015
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Sex to indicate being biologically male or female. Gender refers to characteristics that may be the result of developmental and social experience. Calling something a sex difference implies that it is rooted in biology, specifically the chromosomes. Calling something a gender difference suggests that mainly cultural and social factors are involved. Gender role a set of shared cultural expectations that outlines the attitudes and behaviours a typical male or female should display. Gender typing the process by which children come to take on the gender roles expected in their society. From the moment of conception, males and females are genetically different. Some gender differences are rooted in biological, but most attitudes, roles, and constraints that define gender are entrenched by social institutions and practices. Bandura"s social cognitive theory: gender consistency the realization that gender is consistent, gender identity those aspects of a person"s sense of self that or invariant relate to masculinity or femininity.
