Chapter 10 Gender and Sexuality
Gender roles and stereotypes
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- sexual orientation
- what gender or are attracted to
- social learning theory of gender roles
- the theory that gender roles are acquired through the basic processes of leanring, including reinforcement punishment and modeling
- cognitive differences
- women test higher in verbal reading and writing and men test higher in spatial skills and do slightly better in math
- gender roles
- the behaviors, attitudes, and personality traits that are designated as either masculine or feminine in a given culture
- sex
- the biologcial category of male or female as defined by physicaldifferences in genetic composition and in reproductive anatomy and function or sexual intercourse
- transgender
- transexual sex conflicts with gender idenitity
- gender identity
- sense of being a female or male
- personality differences
- women tend to be more nuturant men tend to be more assertive
- gender
- the cultural, social, and psychological meanings that are associated with masculinity or femininity
- sexual differences
- males reported more parterns and casual sex
- gender role stereotypes
- the beliefs and expectations people hold about characteristics and behaviors of each sex
- intersex
- ambigious biological sex
- gender schema theory
- the theory that gender role development is influenced by the formation of schemas or mental representations of masculinity and femininity