Sexuality and Gender Flashcards
What is gender?
The psychological aspects of being masculine or feminie
What is gender roles?
The culture’s expectations for male or female behaviour, including attitudes, actions, and personality traits associated with being male or female in that culture
What is gender typing?
The process of acquiring gender-role characteristics
What is gender identity?
The individual’s sense of being masculine or feminine.
What is gender dysphoria?
A person experiences gender incongruence, feeling that he or she is occupying the body of the other sex or some alternative gender has significant distress about the incongruence.
What is transsexuals?
People who choose to alter themselves physically through surgery or hormonal treatments.
What is the social learning theory?
Gender roles learned through observation and imitation of models
What is the gender schema theory?
A theory of gender identity acquisition in which a child develops a mental pattern or framework, or schema, for being male of female and then organizes observed and learned behaviour around that schema
What is stereotypes?
A set of characteristics that people believe is shared by all members of a particular social category; a concept held about a person or group of people that is based on superficial, irrelevant characteristics.
What is a gender stereotype?
A concept held about a person or group of people that is based on being male or female
What is benevolent sexism?
Acceptance of positive stereotypes of males or females that leads to unequal treatment
What is androgyny?
Characteristics of possessing the most positive personality characteristics of males and females regardless of actual sex.
What is sexual orientation?
A person’s sexual attraction to and affection for members of either the opposite or the same sex.
What is couvade syndrome?
A man whose partner is pregnant may experience a kind of “sympathy pregnancy”. Feel physical pain while his wife is in labor.
