Gender Roles

Question 1

sets of expectations that define the ways members of each sex should behave

Answer 1

gender roles

Question 2

critical years in gender-identity formation

Answer 2

2-6

Question 3

by age _, gender identity is fixed and provides an organizing _ for his/her _ _.

Answer 3

6, focus, social interaction

Question 4

Gender identity is a combination of _ and _, meaning that _ and _ factors _ in behavioral development.

• Hormones may _ learning a particular gender role, but they do not _ it to be learned.
• Hormones make it _ to learn a particular behavior, but behavior can be greatly modified by _.

Answer 4

nature, nurture, hormonal, environmental, interact

• predispose, cause
• easier, environmental

Question 5

Social Learning Theory and Gender Identity:

• emphasizes _
• learning is _
• positive and negative _

Answer 5

• imitation
• passive
• reinforcement

Question 6

Boys/girl rewarded by peers and adults for sex-appropriate behaviors and ridiculed and punished for sex-inappropriate behaviors. Explains what theory?

Answer 6

Social Learning Theory

Question 7

“I want rewards. I am rewarded for doing boy things, therefore i want to be a boy.”

Answer 7

Social Learning Theory

Question 8

Cognitive Development Theory:
Children _ _ to acquire sex roles. Child learns his/her gender _, _ attempts to _ and _ the behaviors that fit that gender concept.
- Sex-typed behavior motivated by _ to behave consistently with their gender label.

Answer 8

actively,seek, first, then, acquire, master

- desire

Question 9

“I am a boy, so I want to do boy things. Therefore the opportunity to do boy things is rewarding.”

Answer 9

Cognitive Development Theory