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17 Cards in this Set
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social role theory
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asserts that minor gender differences are exaggerated by the different social roles that males and females occupy
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gender schema
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cognitive structures that guide the processing of gender-relevant information
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expressiveness
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an orientation toward emotion and relationships
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aggression
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involves behavior that is intended to hurt someone either verbally or physically
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adrocentrism
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the belief that the male is the norm
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gender stereotypes
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widely shared beliefs about male and females abilities, personality traits, and social behavior
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hormones
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chemical substances released into the bloodstream through the endocrine glands
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homophobia
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intense fear and intolerance of homosexuality
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instrumentality
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an orientation toward action and accomplishment
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sexism
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discrimination against people on the basis of the gender
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gender role transcendence perspective
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proposes that to be fully human, people need to move beyond gender roles as a way of organizing their perceptions of themselves and others
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gender roles
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cultural expectations for what is appropriate behavior for each gender
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constructionism
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asserts that individuals construct their own reality based on societal expectations, conditioning and self-socialization
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gender
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the state of being male or female
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socialization
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the acquisition of the norms and role expected of people in a particular society
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gender role identity
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a person's identification with the qualities regarded as masculine or feminine
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meta-analysis
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combines the statistical results of many studies of the same question, yielding an estimate of the size and consistency of a variable's effects
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