Social Role Theory

1. Psychological sex differences are seen as the ------------ of the different roles men and women are assigned rather than vice versa - the evolutionary view suggests that social roles grow out of biologically determined psychological differences. (11)
6. Testosterone isn't the cause of greater male-v-female aggressiveness, but instead it's the effect of the fact that men (due to their strength) engage in more athletic & competitive events & this creates higher levels of ---------- than in women. (12)
7. E theory =selective pressures meant men took the role of hunter & women became homemaker - SR theory = evolved physical differences (men = stronger, women = bear children) mean men are assigned hunter, which ------- psychological differences. (7)
8. Research shows that very young children & even animals display sex differences in toy preference - suggests such preferences are biological rather than psychological as sex role socialisation is unlikely to have occurred at such a ----- age. (5)

2. Physical differences of men and women create social roles (men = providers & women = domestic role) - women max their outcomes by choosing a man with a good wage & men max their outcomes by choosing a mate who's successful in the -------- role. (8)
3. IDA - this approach is a social ------------- one, which suggests that much of human behaviour is an invention or outcome of a particular society or culture. (15)
4. IDA - the social role approach -------- the feminist view that changes in social roles will lead to changes in psychological differences between men and women. (8)
5. Social role theory argues that the biologically-based physical differences between men and women allow them to perform certain tasks more ----------. (11)
9. Eagly & Wood suggest that selective pressure don't cause both physical & psychological differences; they only cause physical differences which lead to sex ---- allocations which then create psychological sex differences. (4)
10. ---'s greater speed & upper-body strength facilitate their efficient performance of tasks that require intensive bursts of energy & strength. (3)

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