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Sex identity

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A biological term. A child’s sex can be identified by their hormones and chromosomes. Female or male.

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Gender identity

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Psychological term. A child’s gender can be identified by their attitudes and behaviour. Determines if the child is female or male

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1st Freud stage

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Oral. Lasts for the first 1 and 1/2 years.

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2nd Freud stage

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Anal. 1 and 1/2 years to 3.

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3rd Freud stage

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Phallic. 3 to 6 years. Oedipus and Electra.

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4th Freud stage

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Latency. 6 to puberty.

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5th Freud stage

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Genital. Puberty onwards.

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Oedipus complex

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A sons unconscious sexual attraction for his mother and is afraid of his father castrating him

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Electra complex

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A daughters unconscious sexual attraction to her father and is scared of losing the mothers love

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Identification

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To adopt the attitudes and behaviour of the same sex parent

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Gender disturbance

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Not developing the gender identity usually associated with one’s sex

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Modelling

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A role model provides an example for the child

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Imitation

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Copying the behaviour of a model

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Vicarious Reinforcement

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Learning from the models being either rewarded or punished

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Media

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Means of communication. Television, radio, the Internet and newspapers are all examples of media

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Gender stereotypes

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Believing that all makes are similar and all females are similar

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Gender schema

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A mental building block of knowledge that contains information about each gender

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Gender role

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Behaviour seen as masculine or feminine by a particular culture

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Highly gender schematised

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Where gender is an important way of thinking about the world so information is organised according to what is gender appropriate and gender inappropriate