Atypical gender development

Question 1

What is gender identity disorder?

Answer 1

mismatch between biological sex and gender a person identifies with

Question 2

What is the biological explanation of brain sex theory?

Answer 2

GID caused by size of BSTc, a dimorphic area of the brain that its larger in men but the same size among GID people (Zhou)

Question 3

What is the biological explanation of genetic influences?

Answer 3

• twin studies show 62% of GID cases accounted for by genetic variance (coolidge)

Question 4

what is the social psychological explanation of psychoanalytic theory?

Answer 4

• GID in males is caused by extreme separation anxiety (ovesey and Person)

Question 5

what is the social psychological explanation of cognitive explanations?

Answer 5

• dual pathway theory suggests the development of scheme causes us to identify with out group rather than in group

Question 6

• contradictory evidence for BSTc

Answer 6

• Hulshoff Pol = BSTc affected by transgender hormone therapy
• brain area not fixed n childhood

Question 7

• twin studies are inconclusive

Answer 7

• low concordance rates and small sample sizes

- difficult to separate nature and nurture as cause (interactionist)

Question 8

• issues with psychoanalytic theory

Answer 8

• only applies to males and more likely to berated to concept of father (Rekers)
• concept difficult to test