Final Psych Exam Flashcards
What can sex and gender shape
- Identities
- Interpersonal interactions
- Opportunities
- Societal Institutions
Androgyny
High levels of both stereotypically male-types and female-typed traits
Agender
People who feel ungendered
% of people born intersex
1.7% of people are born intersex
Patriarchal
men/fathers occupy leadership positions in society
Matriarchal
women/mothers are in leadership positions - there are no known matriarchies
Equality
treating everyone the same regardless of backgrounds or differences
Equity
treating everyone fairly by considering backgrounds and differences
3 Central ideas about gender
- it is the most fundamental aspect of a persons identity
- Cultural ideas about gender influence every aspect of a persons life
- We never see gender - it emerges when we experience differences
Sex
- Biological and physiological characteristics (genitalia, sex chromosomes, reproductive hormones)
- Labels are male, female, and intersex
- Assigned at birth, typically used to assign a gender label
Gender
- Attributes, traits, interests, attitudes, stereotypes, appearance, and socialization practices that correspond with ones sex category
- Label and categorize as masculine, feminine, androgynous, agender
- Socially and culturally prescribed meanings and associations with sex categories
Gender identity
How they see themselves and name their gender
Cisgender
experience match between assigned sex and gender they feel they belong to
Transgender
experience mismatch between assigned sex and the gender they feel they belong to
Agender
does not feel sense of belonging to any sex and/or gender category
Gender expression
How people demonstrate and communicate their gender through the ways they act, dress, behave, interact (clothing, hairstyles, mannerisms)
Gender Privilege
Refers to an automatic, unearned advantage that accompanies membership in certain social groups
Women are just as interested in casual sex as men but might decline because of:
- unfamiliar men might pose a danger
- women become stigmatized for having casual sex
- women don’t expect sex with a stranger to be pleasurable
Variance
measure of how far the scores in a distribution vary, on average, from the mean of the distribution
Maximalist approach
a tendency to emphasize differences between members of different sex groups and view them as qualitatively different