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Leach PSY chapter 16
Question | Answer |
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gender | classifications of sex, based on mostly nonbiological traits such as physical structure and appearance |
gender roles | the differing sets of behaviors that a culture considers appropriate for males or females |
gender stereotypes | oversimplified generalizations about the characteristics of males and females |
lateralization | the development, prior to birth, of the tendencies of the brain's left and right hemispheres to specialize in certain functions |
modeling | the process of learning behavior through the observation and imitation of others |
gender schema | the set of traits and behaviors by which a child learns to classify male and female gender roles and by which the child models and measures his or her own relation to those roles |