Psyc 320 Chapter 5 And 6

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gender role

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set of socially significant activities associated with being male or female

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gender identity

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individual identification of self as female or male

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unconscious

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in Freudian theory, region of the mind functioning beyond a person's conscious awareness

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instincts

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in Freudian theory, the drives or impulses that underlie action, thought, and other aspects of personality functioning, which include the life, or sexual, instinct and the death, or aggressive, instinct

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psychosexual stages

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in Freudian, the series of stages ranging from birth to maturity through which the individual's personality develops; these stages are oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital stages

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oedipus complex

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in Freudian theory, the situation that exists during the phallic stage in which the child feels unconscious hostility toward the same-sex parent and unconscious sexual feelings for opposite-sex parent; Freud used the story of Oedipus as an analogy for the family dynamics that occur during the phallic stages of personality development

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castration complex

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in Freudian theory, the unconscious fear that the father will castrate his son as a punishment for the son's sexual longing for his mother

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masochism

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feelings of pleasure as a result of painful or humiliating experiences

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pre-oedipal period

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time during early childhood, before the phallic stage and the Oedipus complex; some feminist psychoanalytic theorists, including Chodorow, have emphasized the importance of this period for personality development

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operant conditioning

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type of learning based on the administration of reinforcement or punishment; receiving reinforcement links the reinforcement with the behavior that preceded it, making the behavior more likely to be repeated

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reinforcement

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any stimulus that increases the probability that a behavior will be repeated

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punishment

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stimulus that decreases the probability that a behavior will be repeated

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gender labeling

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the ability to label self and others as male or female

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gender constancy

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the knowledge that gender is a permanent characteristic and will not change with superficial alterations

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schema

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internal cognitive structure that organizes information and guides perception

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synthesized realism

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mixture of actual information with phony details into a realistic portrayal that is really fiction

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gender identity disorder

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disorder that occurs when a child rejects the gender role that corresponds to biological sex and adopts cross-gender behaviors and possible a cross-gender identity

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transsexual

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individual who receives hormonal and surgical treatment to be changed to the other sex