Exam 1 Flashcards
What is an example of the actual self?
Include I am statements
I am a woman
I am Dominican
I am…
What is an example of the Ought self?
Includes I should be statements
I should be smarter
I should be prettier
I should be…
It is your moral center and more based on society
What is an example of the ideal self
Includes I want to be statements
I want to be smarter
I want to be prettier
I want to be…
What you want to be out of life
What are prospective norms?
They tell us what we should not do
What are prespective norms?
They tell us what we should do
What happens if the actual self falls short of self-guides?
Negative outcomes may occur
What happens if there are discrepancies between the ideal self and the actual self?
It will lead to dejection of emotions such as sadness and dissatisfaction
What happens if there are discrepancies between the ought self and the actual self?
There will be agitation emotions such as anxiety, fear and worry
What is your self concept?
It is a current description of who you are right now
What are your self guides?
They are not who you are right now but what you are pushing yourself towards
What is women centered psychology?
an approach to psychology that emphasizes the physical, psychological, and social experiences that are particularly characteristic of women.
What is feminism?
favors political, economic, and social equality of all people, regardless of gender, and therefore favors the legal and social changes necessary to achieve gender equality.
- belief that people are equal but we have to ensure that equality
What is Wave 1 of feminism?
• late 1800s and early 1900s in Britain, Canada, and the United States
• Fought for gender equality, particularly women’s suffrage
What is Wave 2?
• Began in the 1960s and extended into the 1990s.
• Wider range of issues: sexual freedom; reproductive rights, access to contraception, and abortion; pay equity; equal opportunity in education; and gender-based violence.
• Proposed the Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution
What is wave 3 of feminism?
• 1990s
• Emphasized intersectionality and diversity among women rather than universality of female experience
• Favors the individual’s rights to define feminism, instead of everyone accepting a uniform ideology
What is Wave 4 of feminism?
Fueled by recent advances in online technology, blogs, and social media
• #MeToo movement is an example of activism
• Greater emphasis on intersectionality and critique and rejection of the gender binary
What are the four theoretical approaches to feminism?
Liberal feminist
Cultural feminist
Radical feminist
Women-of-color feminist
What is the focus of liberal feminists?
- gender equality; change laws and social construction of gender; gender similarities
- gender equality is the primary focus
- need to change the laws so everyone has the same rights
What is the focus of cultural feminism?
- focus on gender differences that favor women (e.g. more nurturing)
- “we’re not exactly the same, women are amazing, instead of worse
What is the focus of radical feminism?
- oppression of women is pervasive at all levels (not just laws and policies); massive social; change is necessary
- we need radical changes in order to enact changes. “This has to happen NOW”
What is the focus of women of color feminism?
- focus on intersectionality between gender and other social categories; changes needed from multiple perspectives
- men were the norm, and then white women were, so this doesn’t relate to them
What is the definition of gender?
The state of being male, female, both male and female, or neither male nor female
What is the definition of sex?
Physical or physiological characteristics of maleness and femaleness; sexual behaviors`
What is the definition of gender binary?
A system of conceptualizing gender as having two distinct and opposing groups or kinds
Ex: male and female
What is the definition of genderqueer?
A gender category that is not exclusively male or female and therefore is not captured by the gender binary
What is the definition of gender identity?
A person’s internal sense of their own gender
What is the definition of cisgender?
It describes a person whose gender identity matches the gender they were assigned at birth
What is the definition of transgender?
It describes a person whose gender identity differs from the gender they were assigned at birth
What is the definition of intersex?
- A variety of conditions in which a person is born with genitals or reproductive anatomy that is not typical of female or male people.
- Also termed disorders of sex development in the DSM-5 and differences of sex development or genital diversity
What is the definition of trans?
An umbrella terms for the transgender spectrum; may include people who identify as transgender, genderqueer, cross-dressing, gender nonconforming, gender fluid, or other nonbinary identity
What are sex differences?
Biologically produced differences
- Physical characteristics
What do gender differences result from?
Result from learning and social roles
- social construction of gender
- gender can shift your experiences
True or False: Is it assumed that your ideology separates sex differences and gender differences?
TRUE
What does the gender differences perspective include?
Essentialism and the Evolutionary Perspective
What is essentialism?
gender is a basic, unchangeable characteristic that stems from biological differences and resides within the individual
- very exclusionary, puts people in a box
- sex and gender are linked. Female and male
What is included in the gender similarities perspective?
Social constructionism
What is social constructionism?
differences stem from social (gender) roles that lead to differences in behavior
- It is defined by time, culture, and identity
True or False: We give babies gender roles
True.
- Babies are given gender roles are soon as they are born
What are some prescriptions for women?
- warm and kind
- interested in children
- loyal
- sensitive
- friendly
- clean
- attentive to appearances
What are some proscriptions for women?
- Rebellious
- Stubborn
- Controlling
- Cynical
- Promiscuous
- Arrogant
What are some of the third-gender systems?
- Intermediate State bet. men and women -legitimate gender that isnt viewed negatively
- Both - spiritually
- Neither - they dont identify with the genders or can identify with different genders
- crossing or swapping genders
What is the two gender system?
Male/female - Essentialism
What are some problems with the gender binary?
exclusion of transgender -might not be outside the binary intersex, and nonbinary genders
What are some examples of “Third Gender” in other cultures?
- Native American - Berdache
- India and Bangladesh - Hijra
- Balkans
- we do see examples of different systems not just the gender binary and they vary across different cultures
What are some themes in the Psychology of Women and Gender?
- Gender is not a biologically created fact
- Social Constructionism
- Gender Binary Concept - two spirit
- Gender: Person/Stimulus Variable
- External/Internal Detriments of behavior and inconsistency with people’s behavior - Intersectionality of gender - effects of gender, race, social class, and sexual orientation
What did early theorists in women’s psychology focus on?
Androcentrism
What did theorists focus on between 1890s - 1930s?
Sex differences in intelligence
- men were smarter than women because of their larger head circumference
What did theorists focus on between 1930s - 1950s?
Masculinity and Femininity
-personality differences; how feminine are you as a woman
What did theorists focus on between 1950s - 1980s?
Sex typing and Androgyny - could be beneficial, best of both worlds
- College students tend to be high in androgyny
- Focused on Androgyny; people can have both sets of traits as a part of their self - concept
- Observing behaviors to see if there were gender differences - many children had behaviors that were mixed
What are some gender bias in psychology research design
- Psychology measurement
- Interpretation of low scores in women
- Sampling: area of gender bias
- overgeneralization
- Drug Studies - women excluded: menstrual cycles
- Gender differences in drug reactions > health consequences for women
- The Women’s Health Equity Act of 1990
What are the experimenter’s effects?
when some characteristics of the experimenter affect the way participants behave, thus affecting the research outcome
What are some examples of the experimenter effects?
- Men report more sex partners when the experimenter is female
- Beliefs about rape myth acceptance differ significantly, depending on the experimenter’s clothing (conservative vs. proactive?
What are the observer effects?
when the researcher’s expectations affect his or her observations and recording of the data
What is an example of the observer effects?
The behavior of an infant rated differently if the infant was believed to be female vs. male
What is the female deficit model?
a theory or interpretation of research in which women’s behavior is seen as deficient
What is an example of a biased interpretation of a comparison of confidence scores by gender?
The same findings can be interpreted in different ways
Men report higher confidence than women on X task.
- Are females insecure, underestimating their ability?
- Are males overconfident, overestimating their ability?
What is a bias in publishing findings?
There is a tendency to report significant differences and not any similiarities
True or False: Is sex categorized as a binary?
True
typically
When is sex determined?
After 8 weeks of gestation because of the presence of hormones
- it is relatively stable/difficult to change
What are the four major classes of biological influences?
- Genes - “DNA is not destiny”
- Basic physiological processes
- Hormones - will change the way you’re developing
- Brain - gender differences may stem from different experiences and reflect neural plasticity, not “hard-wired” differences
What is epigenetics?
Changes in gene expression caused by factors other than DNA
How many chromosomes are in each cell of the body?
46 chromosomes
- 22 pairs of autosomes +1 of sex chromosomes (XX or XY)
What is the sex-linked trait?
a trait controlled by a gene on the X chromosome (and occasionally on the Y chromosome)
True or False: The embryo does not have all of the pieces of information on whether it will be male or female or if conception
FALSE.
- At conception, the embryo has all of the pieces of information on whether it will be a male or female
- The information is contained in the XY or XX chromosome
What are the steps in prenatal sex differentiation?
- Step 1: Chromosomal differentiation
- Step 2: Gonad development
- Step 3: Hormone development
- Step 4: Internal reproductive tract
- Step 5: External genitalia