THEORIES OF GENDER DEVELOPMENT #11
Gender Role - correct answer socially significant activities that men and women engage
in in different frequencies
Gender identity - correct answer how men and women come to identify themselves as
male or female, more complex than stereotypical associations
Social learning theory - correct answer emphasizes the importance of models and
experiences
Psychodynamic approach - correct answer does not look at role models to explain the
development of gender identity
Gender schema theory - correct answer holds that the process involves much more
than modeling
Psychodynamic approach to gender development - correct answer Sigmund Freud,
developed during the late part of the 19th century, emphasized the dynamic forces that
interact in forming personality, especially those originating in the unconscious. Theory
was controversial because deems women inferior to men
Psychosexual stages - correct answer oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage. Freud
believed the early stages were most important for personality development
Oedipus Complex - correct answer all boys feel aggression directed toward their father
and a sexual longing toward their mother, which sets up a situation for the development
of gender identity
Castration Complex - correct answer the belief that castration will be the punishment for
boys attraction to their mothers. Boys believe that girls have suffered this, makes them
inferior
Penis Envy - correct answer girls feeling of inferiority to males
Horneys theory of gender - correct answer first german women to enter medical school.
Critic of frauds theory. Men envy women capability to reproduce (womb envy) male
striving for achievement is them overcompensating for their lack of ability to create by
giving birth. Men fear and attribute evil to women because they feel inadequate when
comparing themselves to women. Female inferiority originate with male insecurities
Masochism - correct answer deriving pleasure from pain
Chodorows theory - correct answer proposes a progression of development that gives
women advantages. Boys work toward separation from mother, rejecting femininity.
Girls retain connectedness with mother, becoming feminine
Gender Role - correct answer socially significant activities that men and women engage
in in different frequencies
Gender identity - correct answer how men and women come to identify themselves as
male or female, more complex than stereotypical associations
Social learning theory - correct answer emphasizes the importance of models and
experiences
Psychodynamic approach - correct answer does not look at role models to explain the
development of gender identity
Gender schema theory - correct answer holds that the process involves much more
than modeling
Psychodynamic approach to gender development - correct answer Sigmund Freud,
developed during the late part of the 19th century, emphasized the dynamic forces that
interact in forming personality, especially those originating in the unconscious. Theory
was controversial because deems women inferior to men
Psychosexual stages - correct answer oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage. Freud
believed the early stages were most important for personality development
Oedipus Complex - correct answer all boys feel aggression directed toward their father
and a sexual longing toward their mother, which sets up a situation for the development
of gender identity
Castration Complex - correct answer the belief that castration will be the punishment for
boys attraction to their mothers. Boys believe that girls have suffered this, makes them
inferior
Penis Envy - correct answer girls feeling of inferiority to males
Horneys theory of gender - correct answer first german women to enter medical school.
Critic of frauds theory. Men envy women capability to reproduce (womb envy) male
striving for achievement is them overcompensating for their lack of ability to create by
giving birth. Men fear and attribute evil to women because they feel inadequate when
comparing themselves to women. Female inferiority originate with male insecurities
Masochism - correct answer deriving pleasure from pain
Chodorows theory - correct answer proposes a progression of development that gives
women advantages. Boys work toward separation from mother, rejecting femininity.
Girls retain connectedness with mother, becoming feminine
