What is gender identity and what is its development in the first five years of life?
What will be an ideal response?
Between the ages of 2 and 3, a child can answer the question "Are you a boy or a girl?" The answer indicates that the child has already acquired the beginnings of a gender
identity.
Gender identity refers to the individual's subjective experience and feelings of being either a male or a female. The doctor's words, "It's a girl" or "It's a boy," set in motion the process for acquiring a gender identity. From that point on, parents, siblings, grandparents, and others behave toward male and female infants differently, so that they learn and acquire their gender identity
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A child's ability to use language that indicates an awareness of the difference between their physical and mental selves shows that they have developed a(n) _______________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The material in the textbook on gender and ethnicity in the field of psychology suggests that ____
a. ?although minorities and women have been involved in psychology for many years, they are still underrepresented in many areas of the field b. ?unlike other fields where women and minorities are outnumbered, in psychology, women and minorities outnumber men and Caucasians c. ?while men outnumber women earning doctorates in psychology, Caucasians outnumber minorities d. ?while minorities outnumber Caucasians within the ranks of employment in psychology, men outnumber women
An inborn biological force that determines behavior is the definition of:
a. motivation c. drive b. emotion d. instinct
During an interrogation, an FBI agent tries to scare a suspect into making a confession by saying
"You know, they have this new type of lie detector that can measure activity in different regions of the brain to determine whether a person is lying or telling the truth." What technology is the agent referring to? a. fMRI b. Computer Voice Stress Analyzer c. polygraph d. two-photon imaging