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Definition:Different patterns of behavior exhibited by boys and girls
Cross Gender Behavior-behavior that is atypical for one's own sex by typical for the opposite sex. This kind of behavior is far more common for girls rather than boys. -Girls can act tomboyish as they grow up but still consider themselves under the female gender.

Examples:Girls play with dolls while boys usually play with trucks.
Cross gender behavior can result in girls preference for boyish activities. -Both genders have particular behaviors that associate them to that specific gender. Sex Typed Behavior explains how both girls and boys can revert between both behaviors and give a more in depth explanation as to why this is.

Analogies:
Barbies are to girls as action figures are to boys.

Mnemonics:
Boy And Girls Behaviors BAGB -This mnemonic may make it possible to jump start people's brains to jumpstart into remembering sex typed behavior.

In the News:
[|Article] [|Hormonal influences on sex typed activity] [|Sexual Orientation and Typed Behavior] [|Sex Typed Differences Involving Infants] [|Possible Effects with the use of prenatal hormones towards sex typed beahvior]

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