gender differences

Elisabeth kubler- ross
- studied end of life
- five stages of grief
5 stages
denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
- not everyone experiences them
- others experience in different order
gender identity
- sense of being male or female
- linked to anatomy or physiology
gender roles

expectations on hoe boys/ girls should act, think, and feel
when do gender roles begin
- before birth
- pink clothes for girls
- girls handled more gently
female vs male chromosomes
- two sex chromosomes
- males xy
- females xx
who has larger corpus callosum

females
evolutionary
- behavior tendencies prepare us for survival
- males - more likely to take risks show dominance
- females- concerned with appearance to attract high status
psychoanalytic
- freud
- oedial complex
- girls learn to act feminine from mom
behavioral
- social learning theory
- child respond to rewards and punishment for their behaviors
- imitate role models
- bf skinner
cognitive
- Sandra bem
- gender schema - children schema whats appropriate for males and females
gender orls stereotypes

reflects ideas and beliefs about males and females
meta analysis

differences in cognitive skill within each gender are bigger the dif between genders
stereotype threat
- member of group fears that their performance will validate an existing negative performance stereotype causing decrease in performance
- saying women are bad at math causes them to perform poorly

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gender differences

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