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GNEDER AND SOCIETY Flashcards

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Is a way to describe, explain, and predict relationships among phenomenon.

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Theory

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What are the three gender differences

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Biological
Psychological
Cultural

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The two variations of humans

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Male and female

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The many differences between females and males as reflected by cultural expectations

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Gender differences

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Theory that defines gender as biologically tied to sex and distinctive hormones

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Sex Chromosomes

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What are the sex Chromosomes

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X and Y chromosomes

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Genes controlling intelligence is found in which chromosome?

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X chromosome

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The gene responsible for social skills is found at the

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Male X chromosome

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The primary female hormone that causes women’s body to produce good cholesterol

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Estrogen

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There is a claim that estrogen _________ so that women process alcohol slowly thus react more quickly to alcohol consumption

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Impede liver function

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Primary male hormone that affects men’s behavior

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Testosterone

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True or false

Like women men have hormonal cycles

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True

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When men are at the peak of their cycles their personalities are described as

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Dominant with aggressive behaviour

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14
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The second male hormone linked to aggression

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Androgen

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True or false
Androgen is linked for the instinct to kill humans

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False (animals)

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True or false

When single non fathers become fathers they experience decline in testosterone

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True

17
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Men have greater development on the ________ of the brain

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Left lobe

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Part of the brain that controls logic, sequential information and abstract analytical thinking

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Left lobe

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Women specializes on the ________ of the brain

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Right lobe

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Part of the brain for imaginative and artistic thinking, intuitive thinking and some visual and spatial task

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Right lobe

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True or false

Women use both sides of their brain to do language tasks, while men just uses the left side.

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True

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True or false

Men’s brain work leas hard to figure emotions.

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False (women)

23
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3 theories on the biological influence of gender

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Sex Chromosomes
Sex hormones
Brain structure and development

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Theory that focuses on family dynamics that influence our gender identity

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Psychodynamic theory

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Refinement of the psychodynamic theory, which claims relationships are central to the development of human personality and gender identity

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Object relations theory

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Emphasize the internal psychological processes triggered by early childhood

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Psychological theories

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This theory posits that gender is a learned behavior by observing analyzing and modelling others

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Social Learning theory

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Individuals learn their gender identity from interaction with others

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Cognitive development theory

29
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At age 3 the child develops the understanding that gender is unchanging

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Gender constancy

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It his how children develop high internal motivation which he learns the appropriate things to do for his gender as society prescribes

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Same sex models

31
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Gender is largely influenced by culture

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Cultural influences on gender

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Discovered district meaning of gender

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Margaret Mead

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Anthropological Studies

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The study of different societies and their distinct gender arrangements and identities

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Theory that holds individuals learn to participate competently in their society and to share its values through communication . Gender is learned through conversation

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Symbolic interactionism

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Theory focused on gender, race, and class influence. Position in society fosters different experiences that affect attitude and understanding

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Standpoint theory

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Assumptions on cultural influences of gender

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Social reality is communicatively constructed
Categories such as sex, gender and sexuality and race become focus of criticism
Power systems of heirarchy are crucial to study gender and sex
Oppositional critical views are necessary to critique hegemonic norms

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By product of institution of education society fails to question

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Hidden curriculum

38
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Subtle verbal behavioral and evironmental acts that intentional or bot injure targeted groups based on sex

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Microaggresions

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Types of microaggresions

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Naming
Resisting
Attention
Negative reinforcement
Grouping by cultural identities
Expecting
Unequal rules
Complimenting
Calling out

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