PSYCHOLOGY 346
"Sex, Gender and Behavior"

Key Concepts and Vocabulary

 

Chapters 1 - 3

Critical psychology (p. 2)
Feminist Psychology, psychology of women, psychology of gender (p. 2)
Androcentrism (p. 3)
Feminisms (socialist, women of color [womanism],radical, liberal, cultural (pp. 6-8)
Pro-feminist (p. 8)
Sexism, sex discrimination (pp. 9-10)
Postfeminist era (p. 10)
Backlash (p. 10)
Empirical research (p. 18)
Experimental method (p. 19)
Sex, gender (p. 21)
Gender typing (p. 22)
Linguistic sexism (p. 24)
Whorfian hypothesis (p. 24)
Diversity (p. 25)
Cultural images of the ideal woman (p. 34)
Stereotypes (p. 36)
Instrumental vs. affective traits (p. 38)
Stereotypes and subtypes (p. 39)
Trivialization of women in the public sphere (p. 44)
Face-ism and body-ism (p. 53)
Body surveillance, body shame, body esteem (p. 55)
Debasement and democratic levleing (p. 61)
Generic pronouns (p. 65)
Descriptive and prescriptive functions of stereotypes (p. 65)
Attributions (p. 65)
Social deviance (p. 66)
Androgyny (p. 67)
Ambivalent sexism, hostile sexism, benevolent sexism (p. 67)
Neosexism (p. 73)
Doing gender (p. 78)
Selective attention and encoding (p. 82)
Selective recall (p. 83)
Selective causal attributions (p. 83)
Fundamental attribution error (pp. 83-84)
Blaming the victim (p. 84)
Self-presentation (p. 84)
Self-fulfilling prophecy (p. 84)
Behavioral confirmation (p. 85)
Deference confrontations (p. 87)
Distinctiveness (p. 91)
(social) power (p. 92)
achieved and ascribed status (p. 92)
nonverbal behavior (p. 93)
double bind (p. 96)
stigma (p. 98)
deviance (pp. 98-99)
tokenism (p. 102)
reframing (p. 109)
procedural stigma (p. 110)
social myth (pp. 112-113)

Chapters 4 - 6

Similarities vs differences traditions (p. 117)
Variability (p. 119)
Sex difference vs gender-related difference ( p. 120)
Significant vs. statistically significant (p. 120)
Confounding (p. 121)
Meta-analysis (p. 122)
Kibbutz (p. 128)
Moshav (p. 128)
Averaged differences (p. 129)
Variability hypothesis (p. 133)
Preconventional, conventional, postconventional morality (p. 140)
Ethic of rights, ethic of responsibility (p. 142)
Different voice (p. 142)
Gonads (p. 150
Evolutionary psychologists, evolutionary biologists (p. 150)
Cloning (p. 150)
Dimorphic (p. 151)
PRIMO (p. 152)
Intersex (p. 152)
Autosomes (p. 154)
Sex chromosomes (p. 154)
SRY, H-Y antigen (p. 154)
Testes (p. 154)
Androgens: testosterone, dihydrotestosterone (pp. 154-155)
Ovaries (p. 155)
Estrogen, progestins (p. 155)
Homologue (p. 155)
Mounting (p. 157)
"gay gene" (p. 158)
sexual inversion hypothesis (p. 158)
biological determinism (p. 159)
bisexual (p. 159)
lateralization (p. 160)
transgendered movement (p. 164)
Turner's syndrome (pp. 164-165)
XYY males (p. 166)
Klinefelter's syndrome (p. 167)
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) 9p. 169)
Progesterone (p. 169)
Critical period (p. 169)
Pseudohermahhrodite/intersexual (p. 170)/ Hermaphrodite (p. 174)
Androgen insensitivity (AI) (p. 171)
5-alpha-reductase deficiency, 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency (p. 172)
guevedoce (p. 172)
Turnim man (p. 173)
Transsexualism (p. 176)
Sexually dysmorphic (p. 177)
Gender blending (p. 179)
Virilized (p. 181)
Berdache (p. 182)
Pledged virgins (p. 1832)
Gender liminal (p. 183)
Hijiras (p-. 184)
Homologue (p. 192)

Chapters 7 - 10

sexual scripts (p. 266)
Kinsey reports (p. 269)
Masters and Johnson (pp. 369-270)
"raging hormones" (p. 272)
sexually transmitted diseases (p. 273)
orgasm (pp. 276-277)
masturbation (p. 277)
self-pleasuring and self-gratification (p. 278)
romance novels (p. 279)
female genital mutilation (p. 282)
clitoridectomy (p. 282)
excision (p. 282)
infibulation (p. 282)
machismo vs. marianismo (p. 284)
double standard (p. 288)
Madonna/shore dichotomy (p. 288)
token resistance (p. 290)
"homosexual" as first coined (p. 295)
lesbian (p. 295)
the "pathology" of lesbianism (p. 296)
bisexual (p. 298)
sexual orientation/identity (p. 298)
heterosexism (p. 298)
"coming out" (p. 298)
berdache (p. 302)
indirect vs. direct influence strategies (p. 304)
pop psych books (p. 305)
marriage as a social institution (p. 309)
"marrying up/down" (p. 312)
marriage gradient (p. 312)
traditional marriage (p. 313)
modern marriage (p. 313)
egalitarian marriage (p. 315)
myth of equality (p. 317)
power (p. 317)
social exchange theory (p. 318)
dual-career marriage (p. 318)
"honeymoon period" (p. 321)
"butch/femme" (p. 326)
cohabitation (p. 365)
"trial marriage" (p. 365
never-married women (p. 331)
"old maid" (p. 331)
displaced homemakers (p. 336)
"no-fault" divorce laws (p. 337)
child support (p. 338)
"broken" families (p. 339)
remarriage (pp. 340-341)
five levels of interacting factors (p. 483)
key factors that distinguish various types of violence against women (p. 484)
childhood sexual abuse (p. 486)
incest (p. 486)
pre-conditions for abuse (p. 487)
"grooming" behaviors (p. 487)
coping strategies (p. 488) courtship violence (p. 492)
dating violence (p. 494)
premarital violence (p. 492)
verbal aggression (p. 492)
physical aggression (p. 492)
"destructive traps" (p. 492)
committed relationships (p. 494)
developing relationships (p. 494)
model of courtship aggression (p. 494)
sexual assault (p. 496)
sexual coercion (p. 496)
sexual aggression (p. 496)
attempted rape (p. 496)
rape (p. 496)
social meaning of the term "rape" (p. 496)
sexual precedence (p. 497)
risk factors for sexual victimization (p. 498)
psychopathy-related traits (p. 499)
posttraumatic stress disorder (p. 501)
phases during recover from rape (p. 501)
"real rape" (p. 501)
acquaintance rape (p. 501)
rape laws (p. 502)
boomerang effect (p. 5030
sexual harassment (p. 504)
no-win situation (p. 504)
quid pro quo sexual harassment (p. 505)
hostile environment sexual harassment (p. 505)
gender harassment (p. 506)
predisposition to sexually harass (p. 508)
partner abuse (p. 510)
battered women (p. 510)
"spouse abuse" (p. 510)
"domestic violence" (p. 510)
"wife abuse" (p. 510)
power and control wheel (p. 511)
battered woman's syndrome (p. 549)
survivor theory (p. 514)

Chapters 11, 14 and 15

Working woman/working mother (p. 394)
Homemaker/housewife (p. 394)
"second shift" (p. 395)
relational work (p. 398)
two-person career (p. 399)
vicarious achievement (p. 400)
sex segregation (p. 402)
sex stratification (p. 402)
glass ceiling (p. 404)
women's work as an extension of family roles (p. 405)
wage gap (p. 406)
underemployed (p. 408)
pink collar employment (p. 409)
"women's professions" (p. 409)
attributional biases (p. 410)
status cue (p. 410)
talking platypus phenomenon (p. 411)
discrimination in hiring and promotion (p. 412)
being "out" in the workplace (p. 413)
token (p. 414)
role model (p. 417)
mentor (p. 417)
old-boy network (p. 417)
old-girl network (p. 418)
intrinsic/extrinsic rewards (p. 420)
achievement motivation (p. 421)
mastery, work, competitiveness (p. 427)
retrospective research (p. 425)
expectations of success (p. 425)
subjective value of various options (p. 425)
blue-collar work (p. 426)
role conflict vs. role overload (p. 429) self-selected (p. 431)
individual deficit model (pp. 432-433)
"mommy track" vs. "fast track" (p. 433)
structural model (p. 434)
intergroup power model (p. 434)
social construction of mental illness (p. 522)
sampling bias (p. 523)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (p. 523)
Gender bias in diagnosis (p. 523)
Medical model of mental illness (p. 526)
Learned helplessness (p. 5260
Agoraphobia (p. 526)
Double bind (p. 559)
Te case of Dora (p. 528)
Depression (p. 562)
Gender intensification (p. 531)
Self-in-relation (p. 531)
Self silencing (p. 531)
Syndrome (p. 533)
Premenstrual syndrome (pp. 533-534)
Postpartum depression (p. 534)
Menopausal syndrome (p. 534)
Anorexia nervosa (p. 535)

 
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