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Psyc 3331 Psychology of Gender Notes                         02.02.05 Chapter 1 Key Terms †¢Ã‚     Androcentric bias: discipline of psychology that is largely focused on men and describes men as superior and women as inferior. †¢Ã‚     Bias in Research Methods: bias occurs in every part of the research process-from question formulation and research design to data analysis and interpretation †¢Ã‚     Blatant sexism: occurs when women are treated in a transparently harmful and unequal way. †¢Ã‚     Covert sexism: form of sexism that’s intentional, hidden, and often hostile. †¢Ã‚     Cultural approach: origins of gender stereotyping from a sociocultural perspective where children are socialized to act according to their culture. †¢Ã‚     Cultural feminism: emphasizes characteristics and qualities of women that are devolved and ignored in society. †¢Ã‚     Division 35: APA’s division of the psychology of women (est.1973) †¢Ã‚     Engendering psychology: a psychology which gender considerations are mainstreamed throughout the discipline. †¢Ã‚     Evolutionary psychology: developed by Wilson; psychological traits are selected through evolution †¢Ã‚     Feminism: belief that women and men are equal and should be equally valued and have equal rights. †¢Ã‚     1st wave feminism: began in 1903 with the founding of women’s social and political union †¢Ã‚     gender: different between boys and girls and women and men are averaged in society’s social interact; based on a composed set of traits, interests, and behaviors. †¢Ã‚     Gender schema: structures that allow a person to organize information related to gender by linking gender labels to objects, traits, and behaviors. †¢Ã‚     Gender stereotypes: cognitive representation of males and females; organized set of beliefs of psychological traits and characteristics as well as activities appropriate to men or women. †¢Ã‚     Liberal feminism: focuses on equality of women and men †¢Ã‚     Men’s movement: includes military, political, religion, and economic events that have benefited men †¢Ã‚     Radical feminism: focuses on control of women by men; based on belief that men’s oppression of women is primary and serves as a model for all other oppression †¢Ã‚     Science: knowledge based activity that depends on facts accumulated through systematic and objective questioning, hypothesis testing, methodological study, analysis, and presentation. †¢Ã‚     Sex: biological difference in the genetic composition and reproductive structures and functions of men and women †¢Ã‚     Sex discrimination: harmful and unequal treatment of individuals due to their sex. †¢Ã‚     Sexism: differential treatment of individuals based on their sex; subordination of women and assumption of the superiority of men solely on the basis of sex or gender †¢Ã‚     Social constructionism: view by Foucault that human behavior determined by historical, cultural, and social conditions †¢Ã‚     Socialist feminism: focuses on social relations and how social institutions preserve and promote male dominance. †¢Ã‚     Sociobiology (Evolutionary Psychology): theory by Wilson that holds that psychological traits are selected through an evolutionary process; adaptive traits are selected because they serve to perpetuate the species.
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