AP Psychology Unit 3 - Gender & Sexual Orientation

Sex

The gender assigned to at birth. Usually determined from biological traits and are assigned either male or female

Gender

Socially influenced definition of a boy, girl, man, or woman.

Gender Identity

Our sense of being male, female, or somewhere in between the gender spectrum

Social Learning Theory

The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished (operant conditioning)

Gender Typing

Acquisition of traditional masculine or feminine roles. Parents play a large role in what the child understands in terms of gender roles, but that is not always the case

Androgyny

Displaying both traditional masculine and feminine characteristics

Transgender

An umbrella term describing people who transition out of the assigned gender they are assigned at birth to a different one

Lawrence Kohlberg

Developed a theory of moral development, which has been criticized for potentially underestimating the moral reasoning of female

Gender Schema Theory

The cognitive framework that individuals develop to categorize information based on gender, influencing how they perceive and interpret the world around them.

Example: Seeing certain sports as more masculine like football than something different like ice skating