Sex and Gender

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Sex Identity
Its is the biological term that identifies by their hormones and chromosomes. Male chromosomes XY and female chromosomes **. This determines whether the child's sex identity is female or male.
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Gender Identity
a psychological term that a child's gender can be identified by their attitudes and behaviour. This determines whether the child's gender identity is masculine or feminine.
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Phallic Stage
It is Freud's third stage of psychosexual development; this is in which gender development takes place.
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Identification
This is to adopt the attitudes and behaviour of the same-sex parent.
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Oedipus Complex
this is the conflict a boy in the phallic stage experiences. As the boy unconsciously desires his mother and is afraid of his father as he thinks he is going to castrate him.
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Electra Complex
this is the conflict a girl experiences in the phallic stage. She is unconsciously desires her father and is afraid of losing her mother love.
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Gender Disturbance
Not developing the gender identity usually associated with ones sex.
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Modelling
This is when a role-model provides an example for a child.
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Imitation
copying the behaviour of a model.
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Vicarious Reinforcement
This learning from the models being either rewarded or punished.
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Media
Its a means of communication-television, radio, the internet and newspaper are all forms of media.
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Gender Stereotypes
This is believing all male are similar and all female are similar.
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Gender Schema
They are mental building blocks of knowledge that contain information of each gender.
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Gender Role
Its is a behaviour seen as feminine or masculine by a particular culture.
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Highly Gender Schematised
Its is when a child is extremely stereotypical of what female and males can do e.g. a child might think a nurse can only be a woman and firefighter can only be a man.
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a psychological term that a child's gender can be identified by their attitudes and behaviour. This determines whether the child's gender identity is masculine or feminine.

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It is Freud's third stage of psychosexual development; this is in which gender development takes place.

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This is to adopt the attitudes and behaviour of the same-sex parent.

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this is the conflict a boy in the phallic stage experiences. As the boy unconsciously desires his mother and is afraid of his father as he thinks he is going to castrate him.

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