Essay On Gender Identity
Gender identity is an individual's personal, the sense of being male or female. Gender identity starts to begin in most children by the age of 3. Although most societies define gender as male and female, many cultures may define gender as neither male or female. Sex refers to biological differences between male and female. The same sex hormone occur in both male and female, but differ in amounts and in the effects that they have upon different parts of the body for example, chromosomes (female XX, male XY), hormones (oestrogen, testosterone). According to the social cognitive theory of gender, children's gender development occurs through being rewarded and punished for gender-appropriate and gender-inappropriate behaviors. From birth male and
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I always do the right things like when I clean up my toys and when I would do what my parents would tell me. I have alway been a good child to my parents but now since I got older, I am still a child but I also have done stuff that my parents would punish me for. I remember that I would take the house phone, sneak into my room and call my boyfriend until one day I got cough by my parents. Moral development is a development of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors regarding rules and conventions about what people should do in their interactions with other people. According to Freud, to reduce anxiety, avoid punishment, and maintain parental affection, children identify with their parents, internalizing their standards of right and wrong, and in this way develop the superego. The two stages that Piaget conclude that children go through in how they think about morality is Heteronomous morality which children display from ages 4 to 7. In this stage children think of justice and rules as unchangeable properties, removed from the control of people. The second stage is called autonomous morality which occurs the age of 10 and older. In this stage they become aware that rules and laws are created by people. According to social cognitive theorists, cognitive factors are important in the child's development of
I always do the right things like when I clean up my toys and when I would do what my parents would tell me. I have alway been a good child to my parents but now since I got older, I am still a child but I also have done stuff that my parents would punish me for. I remember that I would take the house phone, sneak into my room and call my boyfriend until one day I got cough by my parents. Moral development is a development of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors regarding rules and conventions about what people should do in their interactions with other people. According to Freud, to reduce anxiety, avoid punishment, and maintain parental affection, children identify with their parents, internalizing their standards of right and wrong, and in this way develop the superego. The two stages that Piaget conclude that children go through in how they think about morality is Heteronomous morality which children display from ages 4 to 7. In this stage children think of justice and rules as unchangeable properties, removed from the control of people. The second stage is called autonomous morality which occurs the age of 10 and older. In this stage they become aware that rules and laws are created by people. According to social cognitive theorists, cognitive factors are important in the child's development of