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What are the benefits of a family that makes time to eat together? Why?
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Children have a lower likelyhood of alcohol use, drugs, and tabacco. Because it provides counciling and a bond
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What is Pharming? Where does TN stand?
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children taking prescription dugs.
TN ranked 2nd using hydrocodone. |
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What % of college students are bindge drinkers?
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40%
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Why are we so involved in taking things that elevate our mood?
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So that we feel better over emotional pain
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Why do people stay together?
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Comfortable, think it will get better, financial reasons, fear of being alone
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Injunctions
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Things that are learned at an early age that were once helpful but are now not your stand on ideas anymore.. ex: interracial marriage (influence of peers)
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What is the difference btw knowledge vs. values/ judgement
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Knowledge-- truths, facts, principals
Values--how you feel, important to us |
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What is a family?
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two or more people related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing in the same house
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Conjugal relationships are...
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marriage
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consanguineous relationships are...
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birth
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individual persception
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two ore more persons who are committed to each other and share emotional closeness
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nuclear family
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biological mother, father, children
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traditional family
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women's roles, men's roles
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affiliated kin families
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unrelated individuals who feel and are treated as family
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what percentage is there of voluntarily childless families?
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17%
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binuclear families
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wife takes daughter, father takes son
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what state is the only state that recognizes gay marriage?
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mass
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Which states recognize civil unions?
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Vermont & CN
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monogomy
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one spouse
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serial monogamy
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many spouses over a lifetime
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polygyny
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having two or more wives
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polyandry
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having two or more husbands
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cenogamy/pantogamy
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group marriage
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what is the main purpose of marriage?
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social & emotional support
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intimate relationship
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emotional security and support, pets
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economic cooperation
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divides labor along gender lines
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what is the top agent for divorce?
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money
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socialization
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tach behaviors that conform to social or cultural norms
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family of orientation
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how you grew up-- affects how you are today
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intergernational transmission
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traits passed on by legacy
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what do families provide?
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legacy, close proximity, familiarity, economic benefits
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how are families effected by the govt
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gov't pushes & pulls family
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gold standard
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impossible to attain-- it is an illusion about marriage and family from media... what we want and what we get are different
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cultural reletivism
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families operate based on their culture
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how does gender play a role in marriage for women?
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women are viewed as submissive and marriage is still strongly divided by gender
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what makes a strong society?
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strong families
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what is the #1 cause of needless deaths in the US
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obesity
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what % of americans are overweight? what about children?
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60% are obese, 30% of children
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familes can bring you much ___ but much ___
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joy, stress
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what is the conservative view on contemporary families?
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pessimistic, negative... families have taken a downturn
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What is the liberal view on contemporary families?
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optimistic, positve
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what is teh centrists view on contemporary families?
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combination of both conservative and liberal
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what is the fastest growing population?
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85+
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What is the body of knowledge?
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500,000 research articles about marriage and family, ask ?s and try to answer them
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what does incredulous mean when speaking about research?
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should be very skeptical about research source
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there was a shift from child-centered society to a ...
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indiviudal centred socieety
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with a child centered society there is...
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familism/ collectivism
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with an individual centered society there is...
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indiviualism, my needs are more important,me first
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how much of an increase is there in cohabitation?
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400%
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what percentage of teens have an STD
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25%
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What % of HSS take part in sexual behavior?
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70%
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what % of males and females are unfaithful?
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35% m, 25% f
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how many people don't have health care
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47 million
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how many orphans are in this world
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33 million
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how many aportions are there per day
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2700
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data develops into...
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theories
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what is the symbolic interaction theory?
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families operate through interaction
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Overfunction
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have to pick up the slack, causes problems
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how many females are owners of fortune 500 companies?
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7
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What causes unstability in marriage?
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death, divorce, unemployment, crisis
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if you can't change, you can't ____
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move on
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morphogenic system
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open system
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morphostatic system
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closed system
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centrifugal interactions
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push apart
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centripetal interactions
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pull together
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microsystem
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immediate influence (families, friends, schools)
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mesosystem
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interconnection between microsystems (how does school influence home, etc)
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exosystem
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indirect influence (salaries, hospitals)
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macrosystem
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laws, customs, attitudes, society
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how does stress effect couples
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increases rate in illnesses and effects biology
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what does the family circumplex model do?
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maps family relationships
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What are the 3 components of the family circumplex model?
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cohesion, adaptability, communication
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What happens when you over-invest yourself in someone else?
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you lose your ID, all you do is live for that person
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enmeshment
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overidentify, too close
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disengagement
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do not feel close
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balanced familes
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moderate levesl of cohesion and adaptability-- have greatest marital and family strenghts
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clinical research
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in depth... case-study
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3 elements of marriage/ relationship
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friendship, communication, trust
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metacommunication
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rules for communication
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why is friendship so important?
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it = companionship
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what does friendship provide to a relationship
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1) support and comfort
2) shared activities and sense of humor 3) sense of togetherness/independence |
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what is the greatest thing to give?
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time
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Why can't you trust a spouse?
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because you can't trust yourself
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Shaken baby syndrom %
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44%-father
20% babysitter 18% BF 7% mother |
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How do we keep relationships alive?
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marriage work, commit to relationship
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% of happy, unhappy, ambivalent to their marriage
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20% happy, 20% unhappy, 40% ambivalent
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Reasons for bankruptcy
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medical costs, morgage, c.c
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"econocide"
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nested in society
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familes of the 1950s were ___
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very stable
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palamony
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rights for economics even if not married
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% of cohabitation
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50% will marry
40% will separate 10% live together forever |
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what are factors promoting change in marriage
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economic change (women in workforce), technological innovations, demographics, shift in gender roles, cultural changes
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collectivism
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benefit from ourselves
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what moves you up in social class?
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education and marriage
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why wouldn't you tolerate differences
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fear, ignorance
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what % are of color
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30%
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What % of color by 2050
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50%
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What type of family has a hight level of alcoholism
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native-american
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retrosexual
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male that has traditional roles
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what does gender do?
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categorizes behaviors, can also restrict us because it tells us how to behave and what to do
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how much more testosterone do males have than females
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40%
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your sex determines if
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you are male or female
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gender is
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is physical and how you feel about yourself
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if sex doesn't = gender you have an
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ID disorder, trapped in the wrong body
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transgender
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cross gender lines
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social learning thories
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based on watching others, modeling behaviors
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cognative development theory
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how you are suposed to act based on gender
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Who is better at communication and why
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women because their corpus collosum is thinner
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What subjects are women and men better at
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women are better at language, men are better at hard sciences
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alexithymia
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how we socialize boys to not express emotions
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what are the perks to being androgynous
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higher self esteem, lower rates of conflict, more equality, resistant to stress, less gender role assignment
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