Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sex and gender
- Biological theory
- Ignores Idea that gender roles may be learnt
- Chromosomes lead to gonads which produce hormones, they affect the brain which affects our behaviour
- Chromosomes - Men:XY Women:XX
- Main Hormone - Men: Testosterone Women: Oestrogen
- Alternative theory - Freud
- Argued we had underlying and instinctive behaviour which causes our behaviour
- Our libido is the drive within us that dictates our gender behaviour
- At age of 4 child enters the phallic stage of development
- Oedipus for boys and Electra for girls
- Libido develops desire for opposite sex
- Fear same sex parent finding out and taking drastic action against them
- Boys fear father will castrate them (removal of penis)
- Girls think they have already been castrated and suffer penis envy, feel less than boys
- To deal with fear/anxiety they identify with same sex parent and start copying their actions to try and replace them to gain gratification from opposite sex parent
- Core study -Diamond & Sigmundson
- 1965 twins born called Bruce & Brian
- During routine circumcision at 8 months old Bruce had penis burnt off
- Money advised family To bring Bruce up as a female, at 17 months old Bruce had his testes removed to stop male hormones
- Started taking female hormones
- Still showed masculine behaviour and features
- Age 13 discovered truth from parents and stopped taking female hormones and hatred to act more like a boy
- Had sex operation to become a male again and got married and adopted wife's kids
- Committed suicide at ages of 38 in 2004
- Applications
- Psychologists have founds boys have better maths & science skills and girls better language & social
- Boy /girl classes
- Different teaching styles
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- Make 1:1 more available
- Find out students best learning styles