sex-typed+behavior

= = = 1375911283 = = Definition: = __**Sex-typed behavior**__- different patterns of behavior exhibited by boys and girls HGD, Chapter 8, p. 192

characterized as appropriate for of of one sex rather than the other.

= Examples: = Tommy shows more interest in trucks than dolls at age 2. Sally was cheer-leading more and more then playing football.

= Analogies: = Boys are to sports, trucks and video games, as girls are to cheer-leading, make up, and jewelry.

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=In the News:= Children's appraisals of sex-typed behavior in their peers. The influence of the peer group on the genesis and maintenance of children's sex-typed behavior has been a topic of interest to socialization theorists.

Testosterone measured in infancy predicts subsequent sex-typed behavior in boys and in girls. The testes are active during gestation, as well as during early infancy. Testosterone elevation during fetal development has been shown to play a role in human neurobehavioral sexual differentiation.

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