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transexualism/transgendered
people who strongly desire to be of the other sex and lives as a person of the other sex
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Gender Identity
one's belief that one is male or female
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Gender dysphoria
sense of incongruity between one's anatomic sex and one's gender identity
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Homosexual transsexuals
extremely feminine gay males who seek sex reassignment
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Autogynephilic
descriptive of transsexuals who are sexually stimulated by fantasies that their own bodies are female
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Prevalence of Transsexualism
- 50,000 in US
- 20,000 have undergone sex reassignment surgery
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Gender typing
process by which children acquire behavior that is deemed appropriate to their sex
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What age do children acquire gender-role stereotypes?
2.5-3.5
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Social Learning Theory
- observational learning
- identification
- socialization
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Cognitive-Developmental Theory
- form concepts, or schemas, about gender then conform their behavior to their gender concepts.
- Kohlberg's three concepts: gender identity, stability, and constancy
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Gender Schema Theory
children develop a gender schema as a means of organizing their perceptions of the world.
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Psychological Androgyny
a state characterized by possession of both stereotypical masculine traits and stereotypical feminine traits
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