4 - Gender Identity

Question 1

What are the milestones for typical gender identity development?

6-8 months

Answer 1

Discriminate male vs female voices

Habituate with one category of faces

Question 2

What are the milestones for typical gender identity development?

9-11 months

Answer 2

Discriminate male vs female faces

Begin to correlate male and female faces with gender related objects

Question 3

What are the milestones for typical gender identity development?

12-14 months

Answer 3

Intermodal associations for male faces and voices

Question 4

What are the milestones for typical gender identity development?

18-20 months

Answer 4

Stereotyped knowledge

Recognize labels associated with faces

Question 5

What are the milestones for typical gender identity development?

24-26 months

Answer 5

Gender labeling

Generalized gender imitation

Gender typed toy category awareness

Question 6

What are the milestones for typical gender identity development?

27-29 months

Answer 6

Gender Labeling for majority

Question 7

What are the milestones for typical gender identity development?

30-32 months

Answer 7

Gender labeling

Nonverbal gender identify

Gender indentity reliably labellied for most children by 3 years

Question 8

Social-Cognitive Theory

Triadic Reciprocal Causation

Answer 8

Environmental Events

Personal Factors

Behavior Patterns

Question 9

Gender Constancy

Gender Identity

Gender Stability

Gender Consistency

Answer 9

Gender Constancy - Idea of conservation

Gender Identity - Knowledge of being boy/girl

Gender Stability - Identity not changing over time

Gender Consistency - Identity not changed by changes in appearance, activities, or traits

Question 10

Clinical: 1/1000; born with ambiguous genitalia

Answer 10

Intersexed

Causes: XX/XY, Turner (X0), Klinefelter (XXY), XXX, XYY, CAH, Hypospadias, Microphallus

Question 11

Difference between transvestite and transgender?

Answer 11

Transvestite gets sexual arousal from cross dressing, fetish like

Transgender is lives as member of gender that is incongruent with his/her anatomic sex

Question 12

Etiology-Theories of Homosexuality:

Biological Explanations

Associative Learning

Timing of Sexual Maturity and Peer Group

Peer Group Alone

Peer Groups and Gender Identity

Answer 12

• Biological Explanations
  
  • Hormones, genese, brain developmental differences
• Associative Learning
  
  • Sexual desire is conditioned, often during early chance experiences that are sexually arousing
• Timing of Sexual Maturity and Peer Group
  
  • Early development leads to increased chance of homosexual interests
• Peer Group Alone
  
  • Exotic becomes erotic
• Peer Groups and Gender Identity
  
  • Rejection by peer group due to nonconformity with traditional roles