Gender Identity

Question 1

Know the case with Brenda!

Question 2

What is the stage of Gender identity and from what age does that happen?

Answer 2

2-2.5 yrs
- self labeling as boy or girl

Question 3

What is the stage of Gender stability and from what age does that happen?

Answer 3

3-4 yrs
- gender is stable over time

Question 4

What is the stage of Gender constancy and from what age does that happen?

Answer 4

4-7 yrs
- stable across situations

Question 5

what is the psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory on this?

Answer 5

• Gender identity develops through early childhood experiences and the resolution of oedipal conflict

Question 6

What is the behavioral/ learning theory on this?

Answer 6

Gender identity is learned as a function of rewards, punishments and imitation
- Basically, you teach it

Question 7

What are the three main points in gender schema theory?

Answer 7

• self label gender
• search for cues about gender
• selectively attend to cultural ideas about what is gender appropriate

Question 8

What is the bio-evolutionary/bio social theory on this?

Answer 8

Basically, that hormones prime the brain and then culture builds upon the primed brain

Question 9

Testosterone may have organizing effects and activating effects

Testosterone creates a neurosignature