Psych Midterm 2 Flashcards
What are Gender roles?
Behaviors, attitudes, and traits that are designed to either be masculine or feminine.
What are gender stereotypes?
Beliefs or expectations people hold on typical characterizations of both men and women.
What is gender identity
Psychological sense of either being a male or female.
What is sexual orientation?
Sexual attraction to someone of the same, opposite, or both sexes.
What is binary in relation to gender?
A person is either male or female.
What is gender consistency?
The awareness that gender is constant and doesn’t change by external attrtributes. Ages 3-6.
What is the Development intergroup Theory?
Adults focus on gender leads and have gender as a key source of information about themselves and others. The form stereotypes.
What is the Gender Schema Theory?
Children form their own gender roles. Children organize behaviors and activities into gender categories.
What are Schemas?
The gender categories which, children actively organize others behaviors, activities and attributes
What is the Social-learning theory?
Children’s form of gender roles are learned through reinforcement punishment and modeling.
What is Ambivalent Sexism?
A concept of gender attributes and encompasses both positive and negative qualities.
What is Hostile Sexism?
The negative element, which includes the attitude that women are inferior to men.
What is Benevolent Sexism?
The positive element, which recognizes women are perceived as needing protection, support, and adoration.
What is the part of the brian the plays a big role in the distribution in hormones?
The Hypothalamus
What does the pituitary gland secrete
Gonadatrophs
What do men and women have for hormones
Men: Androgens
Women: Estrogens
Where are sex hormones produced in humans?
Males: Testes
Females: Ovaries
What are imagined stimuli?
Our imagination in our brain can influence our arousal and desire.
What are cultural norms in terms of sexuality?
- Culture shapes the expression of sexuality
- Psychology meaning, sex depends on cultural contexts
- Culture norms affect sexual practices and techniques
What are the 4 stages of the sexual response cycle?
- Excitement
- Pleauteu
- Orgasim
- Resolution.
What is the Excitement in the sexual response cycle?
- Blood flow
- Vasgogestion
What is the Plateau in the sexual response stage?
-Increase in vascongestion, heart rate and respiration —muscle tension.
What is the orgasm in the sexual response cycle?
- Rhythmic contractions
- The peak
What is the resolution in the sexual response cycle?
- Genital organs return to normal
- Males enter a refractory period
- Females may have more than one orgasm before the onset of resolution.