Gender Flashcards
Sex
Who you are biologically. Determined by chromosomes, hormones and your general anatomy
Gender
Who you are psychologically. Determined by your social characteristics
Sex-Role Stereotypes
Preconcieved ideas of how men and women are supposed to behave
Baby X Experiment
Conducted by Smith and Lloyd in 1978 to investigate sex role steryotypes. Adults interacted with babies in pink or blue snowsuits that were randomly distributed between the sexs of babies.
Results Of Baby X Experiment
Adults played with soft toys and used more feminine language such as “pretty” with those in pink and played with hammers and used more masculine language such as “adventurous” with those in blue.
Androgyny
The balance of masculine and feminine traits
Bem Sex Role Inventory
A self report used to measure participants levels of feminine, masculine and androgynous traits using a linkert scale of how much they have different characteristics