Question 1

Define the following 
-Gender schema

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Question 2

What does it mean to say that gender should be viewed as a verb,not a noun? How is gender social? Finally,what are the implications of such claims? Your response should be grounded in performative theory about gender.

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Question 3

Define the following 
-Psychodynamic theory

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Question 4

Define the following 
-Queer theory

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Question 5

Using an example from your own life or experience,describe an example of social learning theory in action.Be sure to give sufficient detail from the theory and your experience.

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Question 6

Four-year-old Caroline and seven-year-old Jenny are sisters who live and have been raised in the United States.Jenny plays a game in which she is a mother and her stuffed animals are her children.Jenny hugs them and pretends to carefully feed them.Later,young Caroline repeats the same hugging and feeding behaviors with her dolls.Caroline's mother sees this and states,"Caroline,someday you'll be a good mommy." How would anthropological theory of gender explain Caroline's behaviors? How would cognitive development theory explain Caroline's behaviors? Make sure you address "maternal instinct" in your answer.

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Question 7

Social learning theory suggests that children actively seek to perform their gender correctly.

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Question 8

Define the following 
-Symbolic interaction theory

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Question 9

The author of your textbook notes that "Using the term man to describe Zac Efron,Barack Obama,and Kanye West obscures the very different ways that these three people enact their identities as men." Using queer theory,explain what the author means by this statement.How can there be so much variation in a word like man.How is a label like this seen by queer theorists?

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Question 10

Define the following 
-Social learning theory

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-Social learning theory...

Question 11

Define the following 
-Cognitive development theory

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-Cognitive development theory...

Question 12

Biological theories attribute some aspects of masculinity and femininity to the differences between male and female bodies.Yet,the author of your textbook notes that biological differences between women and men are quite small and do not explain most behavioral differences.How should the relationship between biology and gender be understood?

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Quiz 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development

Define the following -Gender schema

What does it mean to say that gender should be viewed as a verb,not a noun? How is gender social? Finally,what are the implications of such claims? Your response should be grounded in performative theory about gender.

Define the following -Psychodynamic theory

Define the following -Queer theory

Using an example from your own life or experience,describe an example of social learning theory in action.Be sure to give sufficient detail from the theory and your experience.

Social learning theory suggests that children actively seek to perform their gender correctly.

Define the following -Symbolic interaction theory

Define the following -Social learning theory

Define the following -Cognitive development theory