Men And Women

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Verbal Intelligence

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Tests involving: vocab tests, verbal responses, word problems (math), etc.

Women tend to do better in this area.
Two suggested reasons why: 1) Women talk more, therefore their verbal skills are more developed
2)Biological-women are selected to nat

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Performance Intellegence

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Tests for this are usually timed. Males tend to do better in this field. People with "performance anxiety" (are nervous over being timed) do worse, but this is a false reading of their intellegence.

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Mental Rotation

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The ability to imagine an object in ones mind and rotate it to different angles.

Males tend to do better in this area. Possibly because: 1) its a right hemisphere task 2) it does not involve words 3) theorists say because men were needed to be hunters

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Spactial Perception

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Brings forward important points ans lets others fade into the background.

Sensitivity to ques in the environment

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Spaciotemporal Ability

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Mental compution of an object's space in time.
*shooting targets
*catch a ball
*Males are better at this.
*Probably learned trait.
*Boys have more practice through sports

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Oedipus Complex

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Complex that occurs during the fallic stages of development.
1) child develops awareness of gender differences

2) child identifies with same sex parent

3) child competes for affection of opposite sex parent

Froyd says this this teaches the child

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Psychosexual Stages of Development

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1) Oral
2) Anal
3) Phallic
4) Latancy
5) Genital

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Oral

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(first 18 mos)

*most used to take in the world at this stage
*this is essential for survival

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Anal

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(2-3 years)

Child learns to control their body. In this way they are learning social rules (for the first time they are potty trained). The child becomes socialized. As they tame their demands temper tantrums may be frequent at this stage.

*learn "N

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Phallic

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(4-7 years)

aware of their sex

As defined by Froyd:
Male=penus
Female=no penus

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Latancy

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(7-10 year)

1)Build same sex affiliations
*best friends
*clubs
*cliques

2) Gender excluding practices

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Genital

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(12-13 years)

*rejoining of sex groups
*boy seek out girls
*girls seek out boys
*they search for partners

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concience (according to Froyd)

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gained by learning that society is against incest (father won't let son win over the mother/ threatens him with castration anxiety).

Women dont have castration anxiety so Froyd's theory pointed to women being less morally inclined.

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castration anxiety

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threat of losing potency

(during development this threat is imposed by fathers on sons)

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penus envy

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*women envy advantage males have

*can be compinsated for by aquiring a male that has a penus and higher status

* theory developed by Froyd

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womb envy

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*males compete for wombs

*the reason why males invent and try to clone (becasue they cant give birth)

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conscious

Back 17

deals with awareness
(but not moral awairness, thats conscience)

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masochism

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Froyd said females were more masochistic than males. Meaning they embrace pain.

May be biological:
*child birth
*painful first intercorce
*menstral cycle
these all being disirable events

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Seduction Theory

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(this was not named by Froyd)

Froyd's theory that neurosis is rooted in child abuse. Later it was modified to: sexual abuse is a/one/sufficient cause for neurosis

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Nancy Chodorow's
Separation Theory

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Sugests that prior to fallic stage that all childre ID with thier mothers.

Then young boys must make a dramatic break and become mentees of thier fathers, disidentifying themselves with anything feminin (this can be more advantageous for them because,

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Ellyn Kaschak's
Antigone Complex

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*females readilty accept society

*Antigone leads her father around

*women take on this complex and become servants to men: 1) housewife 2) nanny 3) maid

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gender role

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socially defined roles for masculine and feminin behavior (steriotypical)

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social learning

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learn by watching others interact

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Cognative Developmental Theory

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how the mind matures over time, theorists suggest that we develop thinking into patterns (steriotypical thinking)

eg. child see's a St. Bernard and a Chihuahua, they say the Large dog is the daddy dog and the small dog, the baby

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Stage Theories

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1) learning can be charted on a curve, change over time

2) a chart of learning would look like steps, not a smooth curve because things are learned in stages

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Gender Schema Theory

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Schema- system of thinking

steriotypes for masculine and feminine

(learned at an early age 3-4 years)

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Gender Script Theory

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Gender Schema plays a part in relationships:
*male/females interact differently when with males versus with females

*must act a certain way based on gender concepts

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modeling

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basically copying behaviors from others

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vicarious learning

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learning by watching others

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Cult of True Womanhood

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A book in the 1800s that protraid a "true woman" as being:
1) pious
2) pure (not lustful, no sexual desire, only wish to reproduce)
3) religious
4) submissive

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characteristics of masculine stereotypes

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1) "No Sissy Stuff"

2) "Give 'em Hell" (coined by Harry Trueman)

3) "Big Wheel" (tough, ruthless, arrogant, opportunistic, admired, eg. Donald Trumph- the big cheese)

4) "Sturdy Oak" (stron, dependable, immovable, protecting)

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emotional differences between men and women

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These are SOCIAL RESTRAINTS not biological differences

MEN
*restricted emotions

*display rules (only can show emotion at such times as football games or war memorials)

WOMEN
*warm, loving, show more emotion, always expected to be maternal

eg