Sex & Gender Key Words

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  • Created by: H_H
  • Created on: 07-06-17 13:54
Sex Identity
A biological term. This can be indentified by a person's hormones and chromosomes. This determines whether their sex identity is male or female
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Gender Identity
A psychological term . This can be identified by their attitudes and behaviour. This determines whether their gender identity is masculine or feminine
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Phallic Stage
Freud's third stage of psychosexual development, in which gender development takes place
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Identification
To adopt the attitudes and behaviour of the same-sex parent
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Oedipus Complex
The conflict experienced by a boy in the pahllic stage because he unconciuosly desires his mother and is afraid of his father
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Electra Complex
The conflict experienced by a girl because she unconciusly desires her father and is afraid of losing her mother's love
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Gender Disturbance
Not developing the gender identity asscoiated with on'e sex
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Modelling
A role model provides an example for the child
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Imitation
Copying the behaviour of a model
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Vicarious Reinforcement
Learning from the model's being either rewarded or punished
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Media
Means of communication
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Gender Stereotypes
Believing that all males are similar and all females are similar
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Gender Schema
A mental building block of knowledge that contains information about each gender
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Gender Role
Behaviour seen as masculine or feminine by a particular culture
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Highly Gender Schematised
Where gender is an important way of thinking about the world so information is organised accroding to what is gender appropriate and what is gender inappropriate
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A psychological term . This can be identified by their attitudes and behaviour. This determines whether their gender identity is masculine or feminine

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Freud's third stage of psychosexual development, in which gender development takes place

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