AQA Psychology Unit 1 Gender Development AO1
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- Gender Development
- Sex
- Biological characteristics of a person
- Genes, chromosomes, reproductive anatomy)
- Gender
- psychological and behavioural characteristucs of a person realating to their sex
- masculinity, femininity
- Gender can change, sex cannot
- Sex
- Biological characteristics of a person
- Genes, chromosomes, reproductive anatomy)
- Sex
- Androgyny
- People who have high levels of masculine and feminine traits
- can be measured using BSRI
- BSRI reduces complex concept of masculinity and femininity to simple scores
- over-simplicfication
- BSRI reduces complex concept of masculinity and femininity to simple scores
- Sex Role stereotypes
- An oversimplified, general attitude of how maels and females are expected to behave
- eg mascualine role - father
- eg feminine role - mother
- An oversimplified, general attitude of how maels and females are expected to behave
- Cultural variations in gender related behaviour
- Investigating two or more cultures for the purpose of comparison to consider the universality of gender roles
- Mead(1935)
- Observed three tribal communities, found many differences in gender roles
- No relationship with biological sex and gender role
- Observed three tribal communities, found many differences in gender roles
- Mead(1935)
- Often relies on observation, looking at eg parenting in different cultures
- Weakness
- May misinterpret an action during observation
- could be biased to their hypothesis
- Strength
- Contirbutes to nature/nature debate
- Weakness
- Investigating two or more cultures for the purpose of comparison to consider the universality of gender roles
- Nature/Nurture Debate
- Nature
- Gender differences are innate and are determined by biological factors
- e.g. hormonal and genetic factors
- Gender differences are innate and are determined by biological factors
- Nurture
- Gender differences are a result of environmental differences
- Social and cultural factors
- Gender differences are a result of environmental differences
- Nature
- Sex
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