EXAM 1 Flashcards
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What content does this exam cover?
Chapters 1-4 and the two articles
What are gender binary glasses?
a gendered lens we see the world through, where we organize humans into “men” and “women”
Gender binary subdivision
the continued separation of masculine and feminine activities, gendering more and more of the world
Biocultural interaction
How our bodies (bio) react to our cultures (food, climate…)
Culturalism
The idea that humans are all blank slates formed by their cultural environments (nurture theory)
deceptive differences
If you stare for long enough at two groups, they start to seem more different than they really are
Naturalism
The idea that our biology affects our socialization regardless of cultural mores
observed differences
empirical showings of differences between groups
sexual dimorphism
the extent to which the male and female of a species differ
priming
reminding subjects of stereotype(s) right before an experiment
