Chapter - 10 Flashcards
Female ducts
Mullerian
Male ducts
Wolffian
wolves, like males, have hair
Mullerian
Female ducts
Wolffian
Male ducts
Embryo
5 weeks into development
Male birth hormones
Androgens
Female birth hormones
Estrogens
Gonads
Te**/Ov
Gender roles
Cultural expectations for masculine/feminine behavior
Gender typing
Process of acquiring gender role characteristics
E.g., Parents TV Upbringing Social media
Gender identity
Individual sense of “being” with regards to gender
Gender Dysphoria
Once called Gender Identity Disorder (GID)
Tra** - mismatch between gender and “gender identity”
Gender qu* - “nonbinary”
Gender neutral - neither, superset of gender qu***?
Gender fluid - Changes with time
Hejjra
India’s official third gender
Biological influences (gender identity formation)
Females with more androgens in utero are tomboyish
They don’t become “males” or homo**
Social learning theory
Gender identity formed through modeling and reinforcement
Females have more leeway to do more out-of-gender things
Gender schema theory
Gender identity formed after the child develops a schema for gender
Child learns to behave its own gender?
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Gender (stimulus variable)
Gender causes different (though not unfair) treatment
E.g., A male walks to a building, supposedly will do a double step to open door for a female, but not for a male, unless she’s a super hardcore feminist
Sexism
Prejudice leading to unfair treatment
E.g., interviewing only female babysitters because males are bad nurturers
Benevolent sexism
Unfair treatment based on positive stereotype
E.g., three females and one male on road trip, tire goes flat, and male must change it because he’s a male
Androgyny
Characteristic of possessing mostly positive traits from both genders
E.g., one can both cook and change tires
Cognitive differences between genders
None
Except males have better mental rotation abilities than females (not at all due to biology)
Emotional expression differences between genders
Males report feelings to others
Females relate feelings to others (vent)
NSSHB
Showed that males do more se** stuff than females
Origins of S***** Dysfunction
Organic dysfunction
Sociocultural dysfunction
Psychological dysfunction
Organic dysfunction
Caused by physical dysfunction (age)
Sociocultural dysfunction
Caused by Crazy Christian Conservatards
Psychological dysfunction
Caused by mental health problems
Paraphilias
Criminal
Fulfillment through criminal, unusual, or socially unacceptable means
Ephebophile
Ped**** but for teenagers
Exhibitionism
Naked in public
Voy***ism
Illegal watching
Frotteurism
Clothed and touching stranger with gen***ls in public illegally
Transvestism
Male wears female clothing
Fet**hes
Explained by conditioning
Object/body part (anything) must be present in forn***
Foot fet***
Because feet and gen***** neurons are neighbors in the brain
Bacterial S*Ds
Treatable
Chlamydia
Syphilis
Gonorrhea
Chlamydia
Bacterial
Silent STD/”college campus” STD
75% of females and 50% of males are asymptomatic
Causes infertility and pelvic inflammatory for females
5x likelihood for HIV
Syphilis
Bacterial
Silent
Small sores, then rash, then latent
Comes back after 10-30 years, too late to treat
Causes blindness and death through the brain
Gonorrhea
Bacterial
The “clap”
Used to slam heavy object on p** to “clap” discharge out
Viral S*Ds
Untreatable
Herpes
HPV
AIDS
Herpes
Viral
Causes cold sores
Only 10% of those who have it are diagnosed
HPV
Viral
Causes cervical cancer in females
Causes head/neck/throat cancer in males
Males have oral HPV more than females
AIDS
Viral
Causes immunocompromised
