Evaluation of The Biological explanation for gender development

Question 1

1 strength regarding credibility

Answer 1

its very scientific , providing credible explanations and providing evidence to support its claims

Question 2

evidence to support having evidence to support its claims

Answer 2

• Pfeiffer transplanted male goonads into female rats and found reversed sexual behaviour showing it the effect of hormones and therefore nurture
• case of David Reimer showed when somone brought up as a girl who was actually male our biological sex seemed to have more of an effect on how he felt about his gender identity

Question 3

Application

Answer 3

-can be used to help people with gender dysphoria with a hormone relacement therapy used for transgender and transexual people to change their balance of sex hormones

Question 4

what is gender dysphoria?

Answer 4

the belief that someone is born in the wrong body and prefer to live as the opposite sex

Question 5

what is a reductionist explanation?

Answer 5

ignores other factor other than the one you are interested in

Question 6

1 Weakness regarding the reductionist explanation?

Answer 6

it ignores other factors leading to gender devlopment such as the process of observing others and imitating gender appropriate behaviour which has little to do with our biological sex.

Question 7

what have most psychologists accepted nowadays?

Answer 7

That the role of biology and environment are both important factors in terms of shaping gender

Question 8

1 weakness regarding animals used in biological approaches experiments?

Answer 8

its difficult to generalise findings from rats as humans are far more complex , therefore animal studies may not give us a true picture of gender development in humans