Course Description
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Key Concepts & Vocabulary
Chapters 1 - 3
Chapters 4 - 6
Chapters 7 - 10
Chapters 11, 14 & 15

Blackboard Discussion

Sex/Gender Resources

Women's Studies at UNCG

Selected Women and Gender
Resources on the WWW
Women's Studies Database
Gender and Sexuality
International Studies Gender Resources
The Women's Resource Project
Women and Gender Websites


Psychology Resources

American Psychological Association
Society for the Psychology of Women
Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and 
Bisexual Issues
Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Adult Development and Aging
Citing Electronic Sources

 
 

 

 

PSYCHOLOGY 346
"Sex, Gender and Behavior"

Key Concepts & Vocabulary

Chapters 11, 14 & 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)
Hysteria (p. 535)
Neurasthenia (p. 536)
"rest cure" (p. 536)
eating disorders (p. 538)
bulimia (p. 540)
binge eating disorder (p. 540)
"fat talk" (p. 542)
self-defeating personality disorder (p. 544)
double standard in diagnostic categories (p. 545)
delusional dominating personality disorder (p. 546)
gender bias in practitioner attitudes, treatment (p. 547)
psychotropic drugs (p. 547)
unmitigated communion ( p. 549)
traditional therapy (p. 549)
feminist therapy (p. 551)
empowerment (p. 551)
"patient" vs. "client" (p. 551)
nonsexist therapy (p. 553)
impact of therapist characteristics (p. 553)
therapy with marginalized women (p. 557)
"colorism" (p. 558)
cultural bound syndromes (p. 559)
"Puerto Rican syndrome" (p. 559)
hyperkinesis (p. 559)
third wave feminists (p. 563)
collective action (p. 564)
consciousness-raising groups (p. 565)
"croning ceremony" (p. 568)
"battered woman," "date rape," "sexual harassment" (p. 569)
"victim" vs "survivor" (p. 569)
"braburners," feminazis" (p. 569)
"feminist" tainted by backlash (p. 569)
"herstory" (p. 569)

 
 
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