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Evolutionary Psychology and Gender Development http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 9sORv1odSyQ Review: • What is gender? • Evolutionary speaking, why is this? • What is natural selection? What determines biological sex? Prenatal development • 4th and 5th prenatal month – Male’s greater testosterone and female’s ovarian hormones impact brain wiring • Brain Modules • http://www.learner.org/resources/series142.html ?pop=yes&pid=1571# Gender Development and Social Influence • Research linked to male/female differences in brain areas with abundant sex hormone receptors during development – Ex: adulthood: frontal lobes involved in verbal fluency are thicker in ___________ and part of parietal cortex involved in space perception is thicker in ______________ Gender roles in development • Biopsychosocial approach – gender is a social construct • Culture shapes our roles – Role is a cluster of prescribed actions So what is a gender role? • Our expectations about the way men and women behave What gender roles do you see? How did we get here? • Hunter/gatherers – Little division of labor by sex – Boys and girls receive same or different upbringing? Agricultural Societies • Women stayed close to home • Men often roam more freely Conclusions? • Over time, societies typically socialize children into more distinct gender roles Social learning theory • Assumes that children are gender linked by OBSERVING and IMITATING significant others – Rewarded and punished – What does the father say to his son who was in a fight? What does the father say to his daughter who was in a fight? • Society assigns each of us to a category of male and female – Gender identity: sense of being male or female – Gender typed: acquiring a traditional male or female role – Gender schema: What it MEANS to be male or female • Humans adjust their behavior accordingly • Princess Boy • http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/princess-boytransgender-kids-primetime-nightline-14425305 • Sexual Identity Goes Awry • http://phptube.hutchcc.edu/videos/1099/sexual-identitygoes-awry