General Psychology 2 g15w1964
Reflexive Practical Report Kristen Brenda Walker
Tuesday: 9 & 10 group Tutor: Relebohile Seloana
Psychology Reflective Exercise 1
One’s culture and the society that one lives in plays an important role in shaping one’s identity. There are many different theories surrounding how one becomes a gendered being. I will focus on the Psychological theory of gender to explain the concepts surrounding gender. According to the Psychological theory, sex is a biological factor and gender is socially constructed or learnt. Gender can be seen as socially constructed due to the various theorist’s views that will be explored throughout this practical report. This theory also focuses on primary and secondary…show more content… Female persons are often the nurturers in a child’s life as they spend most of their time caring for the child according to Chodorow (Blakemore et al., 2009). Male figures were seen as providing little to no child care (Blakemore et al., 2009). She believed that the early relationship that the child has to their mother is an everlasting one and impacts how the child will develop (Blakemore et al., 2009). Chodorow also believed that same sex bonding was a lot more common for children. Girls do not separate as strongly away from their mothers like boys do (Blakemore et al., 2009). The separation between the mother and son is largely due to the son’s rejection and mistrust towards anything that resembles femininity, he has become aware of his anatomical differences to his mother and so he tries to distance himself away from anything that resembles her (Blakemore et al., 2009). Chodorow believed that the separation that a son has from his mother occurs during the pre-oedipal stage, at the same time the girl’s closeness with her mother takes place (Blakemore et al., 2009). When the Oedipus conflict stage occurs, the differences in gender amongst girls and boys has already occurred (Blakemore et al.,…show more content… One learns what gender-appropriate behaviours to acquire through modelling and reinforcement. The information that one learns about how to behave in a gender appropriate manner is obtained at an early age in their lives (Blakemore et al., 2009). Their gender labelling is learnt a while before gender typical and gender clothing preferences arise (Blakemore et al., 2009). The child’s gender appropriate behaviours are learnt through media images that are expressed and used by their family and peers (Blakemore et al., 2009). The child then models the behaviour of their family members and peers (Blakemore et al., 2009). Boys are discouraged against showing any signs of femininity during their childhood, girls on the other hand are not as severely discouraged as boys for showing signs of the opposite genders’ appropriate behaviour (Blakemore et al.,
