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16 Cards in this Set
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What is your sex? |
Biologically male or female |
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What is your gender? |
The way you act and identify yourself |
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What are androgynous people? |
People with a balanced combo of masculine and feminine characteristics |
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What vary over time and between cultures? |
Sex roles, behaviours expected of men and women |
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What are sex role stereotypes? |
Ideas ab sex roles that are widely held but tend to be narrow, inflexible and over generalised |
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What was seavey et als study? |
Demonstrated adults shoeing sex role stereotypes- asked to interact w a 3 month old "boy,girl or baby" for example a doll was given when introduced as a girl |
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What did Bem develop? |
A self report questionnaire known as the Bem Sex Role Inventory |
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How did Bem do this? |
Asked 50 male and female students to rate personality traits as masculine or feminine |
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How does the BSRI utilise that? |
Used these traits in a questionnaire, rate from 1-7 |
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What do the ratings mean? |
If score high on both masculine and feminine traits said to be psychologically androgynous |
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What does Bem suggest? |
Being psychologically androgynous is advantageous in social situations |
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What do several studies suggest ab this? |
Environmental factors are the cause of androgyny |
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How did Weisner and Wilson show this? |
compared children raised in fams that put an emphasis on traditional gender roles to children raised in familys that didnt |
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What did they find? |
Androgyny was higher in those encouraged to ignore traditional gender roles |
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However what do other researchers argue? |
Androgyny is more like a lifestyle choice as you are able to select the best masculine and feminine traits to use |
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What is a criticism of the BSRI? |
Considered to be a reductionist theory as it reduces femininity and masculinity to a single core and is based on outdated views |
