CH 10.3

Question 1

gender

Answer 1

the psychological aspects of being male/female

gender affects:
- Social group & culture
- Development of the personality
- Sense of identity

Question 2

gender roles

Answer 2

the culture’s expectations for male/female behavior
- attitudes
- actions
- personality traits

Question 3

gender typing

Answer 3

process of acquiring gender-role characteristics

Question 4

gender identity

Answer 4

the individual’s sense of benign masculine/feminine

Question 5

transgender

Answer 5

the sense of gender identity doesn’t match their external experience/chromosomes

Question 6

gender dysphoria

Answer 6

when a person experiences gender incongruence, feeling that he/she is occupying the body of the other sex or some alt. gender & has significant distress abt the incongruence

Question 7

transsexual

Answer 7

individuals who choose to alter physical self through surgery or hormonal treatment

Question 8

couvade syndrome

Answer 8

a man whose partner is pregnant may experience a kind of “sympathy pregnancy”

Question 9

psychiatric disorder

Answer 9

perhaps out of jealousy of the attention given to the pregnant wife

Question 10

hormones

Answer 10

exposure during fetal development predisposes the infant to behavior associated w/ each gender

Question 11

environmental influences

Answer 11

Pressure to conform contributes to cultural gender roles

Question 12

cultural influences
CULTURE

Answer 12

individualistic societies w/ high standards of living are more accepting of nontraditional gender roles, esp. for women