Biosocial approach to gender development

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1. What theory did the David Reimer case study disprove?

  • Goldwyn's study
  • Eagly and Wood's Social Role theory
  • Money and Ehrardt's theory that any gender will be maintained if assigned before the age of 3
  • The theory of everything
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2. Give a criticism of Smith and Lloyd's/Condry and Condry's study -

  • In Smith and Lloyd's study there was not a gender neutral name, so no control group
  • Participants may have experienced social desirability
  • Babies in Condry and Condry's study put under stress by the jack in the box (unethical)
  • All of the above

3. Who proposed the Biosocial approach?

  • Macmillan (1950)
  • Money and Ehrardt (1972)
  • Reimer et al (1963)
  • Eagly and Wood (1999)

4. Give one criticism of research into the biosocial theory

  • Studies of abnormal individuals can't be generalised to all populations
  • it is rubbish
  • It is on the wrong side of the nature vs nurture debate

5. What did Goldwyn, 1979, study?

  • Daphne West, born with testes instead of ovaries but a female appearance who maintained her gender
  • David Reimer, raised as a girl but rejected this gender as he was born chromosomal male
  • Which toys participants gave babies in relation to their assumed gender.
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