Statistics for Psychology GCSE Unit 2: Sex and gender

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A biological term. Can be determined by a person's hormones and chromosomes.	Sex	91%
A psychological term. Can be determined by a person's attitudes and behaviour.	Gender	74%
The conflict experienced by a boy in the phallic stage because he unconsciously desires his mother and is afraid of his father.	Oedipus complex	45%
Freud's third stage of psychosexual development, in which gender development takes place.	Phallic stage	39%
The conflict experienced by a girl because she unconsciously desires her father and is afraid of losing her mother's love.	Electra complex	35%
Copying the behaviour of a model.	Imitation	14%
Behaviour seen as masculine or feminine by a particular culture.	Gender role	11%
A mental building block of knowledge that contains information about each gender.	Gender schema	8%
To adopt the attitudes and behaviour of the same-sex parent.	Identification	8%
A role model provides and example for the child.	Modelling	5%
Learning from the model's being either rewarded or punished.	Vicarious reinforcement	5%
Believing that all males and all females are similar.	Gender stereotypes	2%
Not developing the gender identity usually associated with one's sex.	Gender disturbance	1%
Where gender is an important way of thinking about the world so information is organised according to what is gender appropriate and what is gender inappropriate.	Highly gender schematised	1%