Psychodynamic

Question 1

Pre-phallic children

Answer 1

1. Development through psychosexual stages
2. No sense of gender until end of phalic stage at 6 years
3. Then Oedipus or Electra complex occurs

Question 2

Oedipus complex

Answer 2

1. Feeling towards mother
2. Hate father as love rival but also fears castrations (anxiety) from him
3. Resolves complex by giving up love for mother and identifies with father

Question 3

Electra complex

Answer 3

1. Penis envy (loving father and hating mother)
2. Double resentment as they blame mother for not giving them a penis
3. Accept they will never have a penis and identify with mother over ability to have child instead

Question 4

What is the result of both complexes

Answer 4

1. Resolve respective complexes by identifying with same sex parent
2. Adopt this second hand gender identity and

Question 5

Research support against

Answer 5

1. Children of harsh and punitive fathers should be more scared and so identify more
2. However liberal fatherd children are more secure in their masculine identity

Question 6

Androcentism

Answer 6

1. Penis envy based off Victorian idea of patriarchy

2. Penis envy was a cultural construct and therefore not innate part of gender development

Question 7

Evdicne agaisnt from non-nuclear families

Answer 7

1. Children from single parent families have normal gender identity
2. 37 children raised by gay or transgender parents were all typical

Question 8

Lack of scientific regiour

Answer 8

1. Unconsious nature is untestable
2. Contrasts to other theory’s of gender development that are scientifically credible
3. Unfalsifiable so pseudoscience

Question 9

Contrast with Kholberg and gender schema theory

Answer 9

1. Said gender development is acquired at end of phalic stage
2. Other two show it develops slowly from the age of 2 in sync with cognitive capacity