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Gender Development
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sORv1odSyQ
Review:
• What is gender?• Evolutionary speaking, why is this?• What is natural selection?
What determines biological sex?
Prenatal development• 4th and 5th prenatal month
– Male’s greater testosterone and female’s ovarian hormones impact brain wiring
• Brain Modules• http://www.learner.org/resources/series142.html?p
op=yes&pid=1571#
Gender Development and Social Influence
• Research linked to male/female differences in brain areas with abundant sex hormone receptors during development– Ex: adulthood: frontal lobes involved in verbal
fluency are thicker in ___________ and part of parietal cortex involved in space perception is thicker in ______________
Gender roles in development
• Biopsychosocial approach– gender is a social construct
• Culture shapes our roles– Role is a cluster of prescribed actions
So what is a gender role?
• Our expectations about the way men and women behave
What gender roles do you see?
How did we get here?
• Hunter/gatherers– Little division of
labor by sex– Boys and girls
receive same or different upbringing?
Agricultural Societies
• Women stayed close to home• Men often roam more freely
Conclusions?• Over time, societies typically socialize
children into more distinct gender roles
Social learning theory
• Assumes that children are gender linked by OBSERVING and IMITATING significant others – Rewarded and punished – What does the father
say to his son who was in a fight? What does the father say to his daughter who was in a fight?
• Society assigns each of us to a category of male and female– Gender identity: sense of being male or female– Gender typed: acquiring a traditional male or
female role– Gender schema: What it MEANS to be male or
female• Humans adjust their behavior accordingly
Sexual Orientation(think of orientation as a direction)
• Sexual attraction to the – same gender (homosexual), – different gender (heterosexual), – or both (bi-sexual)
Gender Identity: Transgender/Transsexual/Intersex/Queer
• Transgender/transsexual: although sometimes used interchangeably, it has been understood that they both fall under the umbrella of a difference between inner-cognition of gender and outward expression of sex (genitalia)
– Transsexuals tend to seek treatment to transition and will eventually be male or female
– Transgender may or may not seek treatment for full transition• Intersex: relates to biological condition where social constructs are
reflected due to biological circumstance– Hermaphrodite, Klinefelters, mix-matched anatomy (unusually large clitoris,
unusually small penis, no vaginal opening, no testes)– DSM refers to these anomalies as partial androgen insensitivities or congenital
adrenal hyperplasia• Queer: outside norms related to sexuality or gender, would rather not
exist with labels, fluid– Not to be confused with non-comformity
• Princess Boy• http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/princ
ess-boy-transgender-kids-primetime-nightline-14425305
• Sexual Identity Goes Awry• http://phptube.hutchcc.edu/videos/1099/sex
ual-identity-goes-awry