Chapter 2 Test Flashcards
Gender Stereotypes about emotions
Emotions we perceive that each gender should have
Internal vs. External Attributions
Women-More internal thoughts and bad things. Men seek more external reasons
Display rules
Cultural norms that we make for what emotions can be portraited.
Externalizers
Women show more emotion reactions through their facial expressions but less physiologically
Internalizers
Men more likely to show less emotion but have more internal reaction
Generalizers
Demonstrate both equally.
Gender Role identity
plays significant effect on how we express out emotions
Temperament
What emotions boys and girls are more likely to show
Self conscious emotions
People of color show similia tires in showing and guilt.
Emotional intensity
Powerful vs Powerless emotions
Emotional intensity
Gender Roles/Endorsement of gender stereotypes/ Men more women less/ How strong you relationship is with someone
Emotional Competence
Ability to perceive, appraise & express emotions accurately & clearly.
To understand, analyze & use knowledge about emotions to think & make decisions
To regulate emotions of self & others
Mental Health
Emotional, Psychological, Social Well being, Affects our thinking, mood, and behavior.
Trauma
Emotional response to an terrible event.
PTSD
Emotional event characterized by intrusive thoughts about the event, anxiety, and avoidance of similar situations.
ACE’s
Adverse Childhood Experiences.
Broverman Double standard study
Traits of normal men and women
Found that it was dependent on male and female and used gender expectations.
Mental Illness
Disordered behavior or thinking, indicated by ongoing distress and the inability to cope.
Social Control
Using mental illness to catalyze controlling women.
Major Depressive disorder
You know it
Women and depression
Have more but commit less
Alcoholism in women and men
Men abuse alcohol more but women abuse drugs.
Bulimia and eating disorders
Women have more, need to avoid fat talk and bad body standards.
Gender Dysphoria
Desire to be a different gender
Gender difference in ability?
None
Spatial Skills?
Women have a harder time
School Achievement?
Girls get better grades, but with possibly feminized schooling
Occupations
We still see gendered occupations, but its getting better
Gender gap in stem
Boys far higher then girls, Bias, lack of interest, and role models.
Feminist Biology
Biology has often been looked though from a male lens, giving women less representation
Xist Gene
Affects how the specific things appear
SRY Gene
Makes proteins to determine the y chromosome
Epigenetics
Looking at genetics with nurturing as well to get a better overall understanding.
Androgens
in both men and women
Estrogen
Womens hormone
Test
In men only.
Organizing Effects
Get permanent effects like genitalia
Activating effects
Activate or deactivate certain behaviors
Is genitalia identical?
Yes to start, then changes. Tissues are homologous
Brains
Female and male brains are the same size relative to the size of body
Neural Plasticity
Ability of the nerves and connections to build and change
