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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 4 - 6

 
                                        similarities vs. differences traditions (pp. 106-107)
                                         variability (pp. 108-109)
                                         significant vs. statistically significant (p. 199)
                                         confounding (p. 110)
                                         meta-analysis (p. 203)
                                         moderator variable (p. 111)
                                         average differences (p. 109)
                                         female underprediction effect (p. 119-120)
                                         sterotype threat (pp. 115-116)
                                         variability hypothesis (p. 121)
                                         preconventional, conventional, postconvential morality (p. 128)
                                         ethic of rights, ethic of responsibility (p. 129)
                                         different voice (p. 129)
                                         dominants and subordinates (p. 130)
                                         dimorphic (p. 137)
                                         gonads (p. 140-142)
                                         cloning (p. 137) 
                                         intersex (p. 140)
                                         testes (p. 254)
                                         androgens: testosterone, dihydrotestosterone (p. 138, 140)
                                         ovaries (p. 140-142)
                                         estrogens, progestins (p. 138, 142)
                                         homologue (p. 140)
                                         “gay gene” (p. 144)
                                         lateralization (p. 145-146)
                                         sexual inversion hypothesis (p. 146)
                                         biological determinism (p. 146-147)
                                         mounting (p. 147)
                                         PRIMO (p. 149)
                                         autosomes (p. 140)
                                         sex chromosomes (p. 140
                                         Turner's syndrome (p. 150)
                                         XYY & XXY (p. 151)
                                         Klinefelter's syndrome (p. 152)
                                         Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (p. 153)
                                         Angrogen insensitivity (p. 156)
                                         5-alpha-reductase & at beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency (p. 157)
                                         cross-sex rearing (p. 159)
                                         transsexualism (p. 162)
                                         gender blending (p. 165)
                                         social learning theory (p. 173)
                                         identification (p. 174)
                                         gender identity (p. 175)
                                         gender stability (p. 175)
                                         gender schema (p. 174)
                                         gender constancy (p. 175)
                                         interactive process (p. 177)
                                         sex-selective abortion (p. 180)
                                         sex segregation (. 197)
                                         rituals of pollution (p. 199-200)
                                         relational aggression (p. 202)
                                         assertiveness vs. aggression (p. 202)
                                         tomboy vs. sissy (pp. 205-207)
                                         hyperfemininity (pp. 207)
                                         flexibility (p. 210)
                                         positive social deviance (p. 212)
 
 
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