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Gender
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- 1What is the difference between gender and sex?Sex refers to biological differences.
Gender refers to characteristics that a society or culture determines masculine or feminine through gender roles and gender typing. - 2What is the difference between males and females on the effects of environmental overstimulation in childhood?Males are more susceptible to the environment than females in both positive and negative situations.
- 3Do children differ in their displays of emotion?Generally, females are more expressive in their faces and gestures. Females are also more accurate at conveying emotions both spontaneously and posed. However, in infancy there is no difference in displayed emotions between males and females.
- 4Do parents differ in their labeling of emotion by their children’s gender?In the Cervantes & Callahan (1998) study, mothers used more emotion labels with their daughters but explained emotion words more with their sons, and this difference increased as the children grew older.
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- Ph.d Developmental (Gender) Flashcards on Gender, created by Sara Fromboluti on 14/05/2016.
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