What three words can change your life forever?

The Nature and Nurture of Gender Gender Role ?? Gender Identity ?? Gender-Typing ??

The Nature of Gender X Chromosome? Y Chromosome? Testosterone Testosterone in males stimulates growth of male ____organs in the _______ (SRY 6th week) development of __________characteristics during puberty

Female Brains Lower “male” androgen exposure in uterus: Improves Development of ______________lobes related to language (the areas of Broca and Wernicke) 1) Effects language development (20,000 – Women , _________- Men) 2) Larger ( more dense) Corpus Callosum Amygdala ____________ 1) emotional judgment (10-15% better at emotion interpretation in___________)

Male Brains Higher Androgen exposure in _______: Inferior-parietal lobule (IPL) which is significantly _________than in women. - Linked to mathematical ability Twin studies show about a (50 %) effect of ________on aggression

The Nurture of Gender Social Learning Theory: Modeling or_________ ( Bandura) Rewards and Punishments Sex typing survey discuss

“ I am a boy so I want to do boy things”

Cognitive Developmental Children are active agents of their own____________ The process is internal/inside pressure Mental Skills ___________ = Gender Role Expectation

Gender _________Theory ASSIMILATION Mental vase that you_______________________. Women are more emotional Women are better at nurturing Women make good nurses and teachers Schema

Gender Schema Theory Gender is a____________________ An influential forces on our behavior-expectations and limits It organizes the______________

Are there only two genders? As Nature Made Him- Extra Credit Book

Gender Roles -1 Gender Roles -2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izhZB4ff8lM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3UNK95LXeE

Gender related abnormalities ( Intersex Conditions) X0- Turners Syndrome-”super female” XXY-Klinefelters Syndrome- “female males” XYY- The double Y Syndrome-”super male” The case of Bruce/Brenda and Intersex conditions