Biological Influences on Gender

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  • Created on: 06-12-12 18:31
What did four categories did Bem's SRI Scale find?
Masculine, Feminine, Angrogynous and Undifferentiated
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What is the 2D:4D Ratio?
the ratio between the lengths of the second (index) and fourth (ring) finger.
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Who has a higher 2D:4D ratio?
Females
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How did Young conduct the experiment on rats?
By injecting them with testosterone to establish the effects.
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What did Troche find?
Those who showed more feminine behaviour on Bem's SRI Scale had a 2D:4D ratio which indicated lower exposure to androgens.
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What is Parental Investment? (Trivers)
the amount of time, energy and effort put in to aid the reproduction and survival of a child.
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What did Trivers argue?
that behavioural differences between men and women evolved due to different reproductive strategies which led to reproductive success.
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What does both the evolutionary and biological approach emphasise?
the role of nature and genes in gender development.
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What have both approaches been criticised for?
Being too deterministic
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What did Thornhill and Palmer argue?
That **** can be explained through the mechanisms of evolution by natural selection
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