Sex Differences Chapter 13, Hyde Next time: Aging Chapter 14 Salthouse Schaie

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Sex Differences (Chapter 13, Hyde)Next time
Aging (Chapter 14 Salthouse Schaie)
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Gender-Role Development Issues

• Sex differences
• Variation in sex typing
• Cognitions
• Determinants

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Meta-Analysis Application of quantitative
methods to combining evidence from different
studies
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Meta-Analysis

• Significance tests
• Effect size
• Important variables

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Hyde Meta-Analyses

• Mathematics performance
• Mathematics attitudes and affect
• Verbal abilities
• Cognitive abilities

• Aggression
• Moral orientation
• Self-esteem
• Sexuality

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Specific Measures

• Target Self-Other
• Question Preference/Attitude-Knowledge
• Domain Activities-Traits-Occupations
• Scale Unidimensional-Multidimensional

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Measurement Options

• Observations Natural Setting
  Laboratory Setting
• Verbal Report Child Other

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Lamb, Easterbrooks, Holden (1980)
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Sex-Role Learning Index (SERLI)Edelbrock
Sugawara (1978)
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Pre-School Activities Inventory (Golombok Rust
(1993)
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Childrens Sex-Role Inventory (Boldizar, 1991)
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Liben., L. S., Bigler, R. (2002). The
developmental course of gender differentiation.
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child
Development, 67(2, Serial No. 269)
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Liben Bigler

• OAT-PM
• OAT-AM
• COAT-PM
• COAT-AM

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build with tools baby-sitgo fishing do
gymnasticsplay chess jump ropeuse a
microscope make jewelrywash a car wash
clothesairplane pilot ballet dancerauto
mechanic school teacherdoctor interior
decoratorfire fighter librarianschool
principal secretaryadventurous affectionatea
ggressive emotionaldominant gentlegood at
math good at Englishgood at sports neat
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Examples of Questions from the Slaby and Frey
Gender Constancy TestWhen you were a little
baby, were you a little girl or a little
boy?Were you ever a little opposite sex of
first response?When you grow up, will you be a
mommy or a daddy?Could you ever be a opposite
sex of first response?If you wore opposite sex
of child, i.e. boys or girls clothes,
would you be a girl or a boy?If you wore
opposite sex of child clothes, would you be a
opposite sex of first response?If you played
opposite sex of child games, would you be a
girl or a boy?If you played opposite sex of
child games, would you be a opposite sex of
first response?Could you be a opposite sex of
child if you wanted to be?
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Bem, S. (1989). Genital knowledge and gender
constancy in preschool children. Child
Development, 60, 649-662.