AP Psychology / Unit 3: Development and Learning
3.3 Gender and Sexual Orientation
Notes
- Sex refers to biological characteristics; gender refers to the roles and identities a culture links with being male, female or other.
- Gender roles are learned through social learning and culture.
- Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of attraction; research points to a mix of biological influences rather than parenting style.
Practice
Expectations about how people of a gender should act are:
Social expectations.
Children learning gender roles by watching others is explained by:
Modeling.
Research suggests sexual orientation is:
Evidence points to biology.
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