Define the terms gender typing, gender-based beliefs, gender stereotypes, gender roles, gender identity, and gender-role preferences. Explain the differences between these concepts as they pertain to gender development.
Describe current gender-role standards and stereotypes, and discuss how these vary over time and across cultures and ethnic groups, education levels, and gender (i.e., differences across men and women in their views of gender typing in children).
Identify gender differences in development, including the real, equivocal, and mythical differences discussed in the chapter (Table 13–1).
Explain the developmental patterns of gender typing, and discuss how gender-typed interests and gender roles change and remain stable across the life course.
Discuss the gender differences and similarities in abilities.
Discuss the differences between expressive and instrumental characteristics as they vary by gender.
Detail the role of biological factors in the development of gender differences. Specifically, discuss the role of hormones in social behavior and cognitive skills and brain lateralization as they contribute to gender differences.
Discuss the interplay between biology and cultural expectations as they contribute to the development of gender differences.
Discuss and compare Kohlberg's cognitive developmental theory and gender schema theory as they describe the development of gender typing.
Discuss the ways in which parents influence gender development. Specifically, discuss parents' gender-typed choices, behavior differences toward sons and daughters and how such behavior differences change across child development.
Discuss the role of parental absence or unavailability on gender development and the differential influence on boys and girls.
Discuss siblings as gender socializing agents and findings regarding the influence of gay and lesbian parents on gender development.
Discuss extrafamilial influences on gender development including books and television, peers, and schools and teachers.
Explain the concept of androgyny and how it has been studied.
