Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint, First Canadian Edition

E. Mavis Hetherington, University of Virginia
Ross D. Parke, University of California
Mark Schmuckler, University of Toronto at Scarborough

Gender Roles and Gender Differences

Key Persons Quiz

Match the key people to their descriptions.


1				A developmentalist who published the classic review of gender differences.


2				A developmentalist who contributed to our understanding of the cognitive applications to sex typing: Gender Schema Theory.


3				An anthropologist whose study of social roles in primitive tribes revealed divergence among cultures in gender-role standards and behaviour.


4				In 1967, this 8-month-old Canadian infant accidentally had his penis amputated during a circumcision; he consequently underwent a sex change surgery and was raised as a girl (i.e., "Brenda").


5				He carried out classic studies at Johns Hopkins University examining how social experience can modify gender identity.


6				A leading researcher at McMaster University who studies lateralization of the brains of men and women.

Answer choices for questions 1 through 6

A)	Eleanor Maccoby
B)	Sandra Bem
C)	Bruce, who was later renamed David
D)	Margaret Mead
E)	John Money
F)	Sandra Witelson

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