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Gender Development Flashcards

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Sex

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Innate biological origins for differences between males and females
Based on sex chromosomes

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Gender

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categorization of oneself or others as girls or boys or neither (e.g. men, women, etc)

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Cisgender

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identify with their assigned gender at birth

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Transgender

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identify with a different gender than assigned at birth

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Nonbinary/genderqueer

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persons who do not identify exclusively with one gender category

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Gender-Fluid

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persons who self identify with different gender categories, depending on the context

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Bigender

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persons who identify with both feminine and masculine gender expressions

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Agender

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persons who do not identify with any gender category

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Gender Typing

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process of gender socialization during development

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Cross-Gender Typed

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behaviours contrary to those stereotyped for a given person’s assigned gender

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Gender Nonconforming

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those who are highly cross gender typed in relation to their assigned gender
Can include transgender or other non cisgender identities
Also used to reference cisgender children with cross gender typed interests (e.g. tomboy)

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Gender Typed

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behaviours stereotyped for a given person’s assigned gender

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Gender Binary

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considering only girls and boys as only two categories

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Dimorphic System

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biological system can only take one of two forms and that its effects on the brain, gender identity, or other outcomes can only take one of two forms

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Challenges to gender Binary

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Both sets of hormones (androgens and estrogens) present in both males and females
Most people show variety of male and female typed behaviours
Transgender and non binary people found across cultures

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Gender Constancy

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Gender remains stable across time and is consistent across situations
Preschoolers do not understand this

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Gender Segregation

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Children begin to prefer playing with same gender peers and avoid other gender peers
Increases steadily from 3-6, remains stable throughout childhood
Across cultures

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Social Dosage Effect

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Amount of time preschool/kindergarten children spent with same-gender peers predicted subsequent changes in gender typed behaviour over 6 months

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Assertion

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Attempts to exert influence over the environment
Seen more in boys

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Affiliation

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Making connections with others
Seen more in girls

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Controlling

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High assertion, low affiliation

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Collaborative

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High in both affiliation and assertion

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Obliging

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High affiliation, low assertion

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Withdrawal

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Low assertion & affiliation

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Gender-Role Intensification

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Common in context of heterosexual dating
Related to increases in gender discrimination
Most adolescents experience sexual harassment, especially girls

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Gender-Role Flexibility

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Reject traditional gender roles as social conventions
More likely among girls
Social support particularly important for gender non-conforming youth
Depend on breadth of opportunities experienced in society for gender ingroup

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Ambivalent Sexism

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Complementary effects of hostile sexism and benevolent sexism
Traditional heterosexual dating scripts spawn from here

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Intersex Conditions

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Recessive genesis can result in person of one genetic sex who develops sexual structures associated with other sex or undergoes only partial development of sexual structures associated with genetic sex

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Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH)

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Recessive gene that leads to production of high levels of androgens during prenatal development
Primarily affects development of genetic females (can affect males too)
Can lead to development male or partially masculinized genitalia (e.g. enlarged clitoris)
Internal structures usually remain female
These girls more likely to choose more physically active play
Most identify as girls

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Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS)

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Recessive genes causing androgen receptors to malfunction in genetic males
Increased androgen production does not trigger typical physical changes in sexual differentiation
Males born with female external genitalia but male internal reproductive structures
Commonly self identify as women
Typically show preferences for stereotypically female interests

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Menarche

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Onset of menstruation

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Adrenarche

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Onset of sexual attraction correlates with maturation of adrenal glands

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Spermarche

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Capacity for ejaculation

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General Intelligence

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Boys and girls are equivalent in most aspects of intelligence and cognitive functioning
Proportionally more boys score at extremes (low and high, learning disabilities and gifted)
Girls tend to show higher levels of school adjustment across many countries
Girls tend to attain higher overall school grades than boys
Highschool dropout rate in Canada higher for boys

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Verbal Skills

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Girls have tendency to be slightly advanced in early language development
Girls tend to achieve higher average performance in reading and writing from elementary to high school
Boys more likely to suffer speech related difficulties and dyslexia

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Spatial Skills

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Boys tend to perform better than girls in visual-spatial processing
Difference emerges around 3-4 years, becomes more substantial with age
Differences most obvious involving mental rotation of complex geometric figure
Other spatial tasks show smaller gender differences (e.g. finding hidden figure in larger image)

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STEM-Related Skills

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Gender gap in math achievement has closed dramatically (no average difference between genders in elementary or middle school)
Small average difference favouring boys in high school (math)

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Direct Aggression

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Overt physical or verbal acts openly intended to cause harm
Boys do more physical aggression

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Indirect Aggression

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Relational/social aggression
Attempts to damage a person’s social standing or group acceptance through covert means (e.g. gossip or social exclusion)
No average gender differences during childhood for indirect aggression
Negligible effect during high school for girls more

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