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ThinkPsychology CH11
Question | Answer |
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Gender | a set of behaviors and characteristics that define individuals as boys and men or girls and women in society |
Gender identity | person's sense of being a boy or girl, man or woman |
Gender identity disorder | a condition in which a person feels he or she was born with the body of the wrong sex |
Gender roles | are expectations about the way men and women behave |
Gender schema theory | states that the process of gender differentiation begins at a very young age; as children develop schemas for other things around them, they also develop a schema for their gender and adjust their behavior to align with it. |
Gender stereotype | a widely held concept about a person or group of people that is based only on gender |
Gender typed | refers to boys and men who show traditionally masculine traits and behaviors, and girls and women who show traditionally feminine traits and behaviors |
Primary sex characteristics | sexual organs present at birth and directly involved in human reproduction |
Secondary sex characteristics | sexual organs and traits that develop at puberty and are not directly involved in reproduction |
Sex | a person's biological classification as either male or female based on the sex chromosomes contained in his or her DNA |
Sexism | consists of prejudice and unfair treatment against men or women based on gender stereotypes |
Sexual orientation | describes enduring sexual attraction toward members of our own sex, the other sex, or both |
Social learning theory | emphasizes the role of cognition in motivation and the importance of expectations in shaping behavior |
Testosterone | an androgen that is the principal male hormone |
X chromosomes | are sex chromosomes that exist as a matched pair in females and as part of an unmatched pair in males (the other part being a Y chromosome) |
Y Chromosomes | sex chromosomes that exist in males as part of an unmatched pair (the other part being an X chromosome) |