Sex & Gender + Social-Emotional Development + Language

Sex

Genetics that determine if you’re male, female, or intersex

XX

Female chromosomes

XY

Male chromosomes

Primary Sex Characteristics

Reproductive organs & structure

Secondary Sex Characteristics

Physical traits that evolve in puberty (facial hair, tatas)

Menarche

First period

Spermarche

First goon sesh ❤

Gender

Person’s attitude or feelings towards their biological sex

Sexual Orientation

Emotional (love languages) and sexual (sexuality) attraction to someone

Gender Typing

When children learn to adopt behaviors that seem “appropriate” for their sex. (Ex: girls playing dress-up, boys playing with cars)

Ecological Systems Theory

Nurture: Theory proposing a child’s development is influenced by multiple layers of environmental systems

Microsystem

Immediate surroundings. (Close family, friends, and school)

Macrosystem

Cultural norms, economic standings, societal view

Exosystem

Indirect impact of community. (Ex: mom whose workplace requires her to work long hours → less time spent with kid, strained relationship & development)

Temperament

What children are born with that determines how they respond to their environment.

Imprinting

The attachment of animals to the first moving object they see. (Mama duck & baby duck.)

Disorganized Attachment

A pattern characterized by inconsistent or confused behaviors towards a caregiver, often resulting from trauma or abuse.

ACEs

Traumatic events and living conditions (abuse, neglect, household dysfunction) that occur before a child is 18 & impede their development.

Semantics

Study of meaning in language

Syntax

The way words are arranged in a sentence

Personal Fable

Adolescent main character syndrome