Gender Roles/Cooperation and Competition Flashcards
What are sex roles?
Biological things about a gender that set them apart from the other gender.
What is an example of a sex role?
Females have babies.
What are gender roles?
Sociological things about a gender that set them apart form the other gender.
for ever ___ (number) of girls ____ (number) of boys are born.
100 girls, 105 boys
at conception every fetus is what gender?
Female
How many hours does it take for a fetus’ gender to be decided?
24-48 hours after conception.
What did Margaret Mead believe about sex roles and dreams?
What were themes in the dreams of the genders?
Sex roles are manifest in dreams
Male-agressive, violent, red dreams with unknown people
Female-social dreams with known people.
What was Raisman’s Field Study?
What part of the brain was affected?
- Rats that had the opposite hormone injected into them from birth. The roles switched.
- The hypothalamus
What is Adrenogenital syndrome?
Who did a study about this?
- When females biologically have extra testosterone, therefore have more male interests and male activity level (tom boys)
- Erhardt
Who did the study about the domincan republic “girls” who later found out they were “boys”?
Julianne Imperato McGinley
What is Non-Conscious Ideology?
One cannot comprehend what has never occurred.
What is verbal feedback in Gender Roles?
Boys are told how to be boys, and girls are told how to be girls.
When does Frued say the identification of gender roles takes place?
What happens in this stage?
- In the Phalic stage
- The child falls in love with the opposite gender parent, and uses the same behavior as the same gender parent to get the attention of the opposite gender parent.
Soaker did what study? (1)
What did she find? (2 things)
- the study on schools and gender roles.
- Teacher feedback tends to support gender roles
Teachers had gender role task assignments.
Modeling is from what school of thought?
Behaviorism
how does modeling theory work in gender roles?
There is reinforcement for appropriate gender roles.
What are the 4 criteria for instinct?
- behavior must develop in earliest stage
- must occur in most complete form at earliest opportunity
- must be universal to all species
- Must be specific neurophysiological process involved.
What is a discontinuous development?
happens in stages.
What are the 7 stages of the developmental continuum?
- Pre Birth
- Birth
- Childhood
- Adolescence
- Adulthood
- old age
- Death
Pre Birth
period in utero while baby develops and has received its genetic makeup
Birth (2 things)
- shortest stage
2. period of transitioning from being in environment where all needs are met to the “cold cruel world”
Childhood
From birth until puberty