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What is gender?

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Gender is a system of social categories that permeates children’s lives from very early on.

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What is gender identity?

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  • Sense of one’s own gender, including knowledge, understanding and acceptance of being male or female
  • Begins to develop around 2 years old
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What are gender roles?

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Set of expectations that presribe how males and females should act, feel and think.

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What is gender typing?

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Acquisitionof traditional masculine or femine roles

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What is gender stability?

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The understanding that gender group membership is normally stable and permanent over time.

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What is gender constancy?

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The understanding that gender group memberschip is unchanged despite changes in appearance.

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What is gender labelling?

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Correct idetification of ‘male’ or ‘female’ of oneself and others

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What are gender stereotypes?

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Beliefs about what is appropriate for or typical of one’s own or the other gender group

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What are the biological influences on gender?

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  • androgens
  • oestrogens
  • unusual levels of sex hormones aka defects
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How do androgens influence gender?

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  • primarily influence development of male genitals & secondary sex characterisitc
  • testosterone is an androgen
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How do oestrogens influence gender?

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  • influence development of gemal physical sex characterisitcs
  • help regulate menstrual cycle
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What are defects in hormones for gender?

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  • congenital adrenal hyperlapsia (CAH)
  • androgen-insensitive males
  • pelvid field defect
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What is CAH?

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Females have abnormoally high levels of androgens

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What are androgen-insentitive males?

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When males don’t have androgens in their bodies, they still have XY but often identify as female

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What is pelvic field defect?

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when males have normal amount of testosteron but have been castrated after being born and raised as females even though they usually identify as boys

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What is parental investment theory?

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  • explaisn gender differences on the basis of biological sex differences
  • reproduction has differenct implications for males/females
  • men/women therefor look for different traits in each other
  • these traits have been adapted as gender role, behaviour and status differences
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What is social learning theory?

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  • learning about gender through observing, modelling and imitating
  • uses reinforcement and modelling
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What are socialising agents?

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  • the models which children will imitate
  • can be adults, peers and media
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What is baby X experiment?

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Gender label of child impacted how they were treated

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What is social role theory?

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  • Gender differences result from contrasting roles of women and men
  • social hierarchy and division of labour stronly influence gender differences in power, assertiveness, and nurture
  • gender differences developed because of being thaught to behave according to specific roles
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What does the cognitive-developmental theory of Kohlberg entail?

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  • gender-role knowledge comes from self-sociliastion
  • gender identity development is a 3 step learning process that results from chil’s attempt to understand sex role behaviour
  1. gender labelling
  2. gender stability
  3. gender constancy
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What is self-socialisiation?

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When children encounter the world around them and get gender-role knowledge from that

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What is the gender labelling step of Kohlberg?

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  • stage 1 –> 2.5 - 3.5 years
  • slow recognition of gender labels
  • treat labels as personal items
  • cognitive feature: egocentrism
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What is egocentrism?

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Children are focused on themselves and don’t see things from others perspectives

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What is gender stability step of Kohlberg?

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  • stage 2 –> 3.5 - 4.5 years
  • gradually award of gender draubilty
  • dependent on physcial cues
  • cognitive feature: poor conservaton skills
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What is conservation?

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A child’s cognitive ability to understand that even when a person’s or object’s appearances change, the basic properties do not change

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What is gender constancy step in Kohlberg?

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  • stage 3 –> 4.5 - 7 years
  • understands gender is constant across time and contexts
  • cognitive feature: conservation skills achieved
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What is gender schema theory?

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  • gender typing emerges as children gradually develop gender schemas of what is gender-appropriate + gender-inappropriate in their culture
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What are gender schemas?

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cognitive structures, network of assocaitions that guide the individuals perceptions

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What is the social cogintive theory?

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  • same as social learning, but more detailed/accurate
  • 3-factor model of personal factors, environmental facturs and behaviour patterns that influence gender development

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