Psychology GCSE Unit 2: Sex and gender

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A biological term. Can be determined by a person's hormones and chromosomes.

A psychological term. Can be determined by a person's attitudes and behaviour.

Freud's third stage of psychosexual development, in which gender development takes place.

To adopt the attitudes and behaviour of the same-sex parent.

The conflict experienced by a boy in the phallic stage because he unconsciously desires his mother and is afraid of his father.

The conflict experienced by a girl because she unconsciously desires her father and is afraid of losing her mother's love.

Not developing the gender identity usually associated with one's sex.

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A role model provides and example for the child.

Copying the behaviour of a model.

Learning from the model's being either rewarded or punished.

Believing that all males and all females are similar.

A mental building block of knowledge that contains information about each gender.

Behaviour seen as masculine or feminine by a particular culture.

Where gender is an important way of thinking about the world so information is organised according to what is gender appropriate and what is gender inappropriate.