Peer Gender Roles Discussion Apa Style Reply

Psychology Prompt Reply to each Peer

Gender Roles Discussion 1 Reply Joni (Teacher):

Justin,

I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on the impact of these gender gaps in mental health and the campaigns that have taken root to combat these gender gaps. Much of the gender gap can be attributed to stereotypes within the healthcare field, including the mental health field. Share with us three of the most common stereotypes and what can be done to reverse or rid our society of these stereotypes.

Joni

Gender Roles Discussion 1 Reply Selene:

After reading this week’s article I’ve learned that the quality of health care provided are impacted by gender roles. According to Feldman, “gender roles are the set of expectations, defined by a particular society, that indicate was is appropriate behavior for men and women” (2017, pg. 329). Unfortunately, many times male patients are given better or more comprehensive care than patients who are females as female patients’ symptoms are often times misinterpreted to a non life threatening disease such as anxiety or depression. Female patients are not given the same comprehensive care as men to determine the severity of their symptoms, they are instead being biased. Like their patients, doctors remain slower to act when symptoms don’t conform to the “classic” model (Dusenbery, 2015). There are many obstacles that exist in closing gender gaps, according to Dusenbery, “lack of access preventative care, the gender bias in medical research and education, and the psychologization of women’s ailments” (2015, para. 19), are some of those obstacles that exist. To close these gender gaps in health care, everyone in society and in the health care field need to be educated on different symptoms and diseases that exist in both genders. Also, health care providers need to think outside of the text book and the what is common and do more comprehensive testing to find the correct underlying disease.

References: Dusenbery, M. (2015) Is medicine’s gender bias killing young women

Feldman, R. (2017) Understanding Psychology (13th Ed.) Mcgraw-Hill

Nature or Nurture Discussion 2 Reply Joni (Teacher):

Justin,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this and using your personal experience to illustrate your point. What impact do you think that nature/nurture plays on personality such as being shy or an extrovert, hard worker or lazy, or even neat versus disorganized? Share a few examples to illustrate your point.

Explain.

Joni

Nature or Nurture Discussion 2 Reply Sarah:

Nature refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who we are, from our physical appearance to our personality characteristics while Nurture refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture. I do believe that both nurture and nature have a very impact on development.However, I lean more towards nurture. The things we experience growing up tend to shape who we become compared to who we are naturally.When I was younger, I saw my mother do a lot of cleaning and she always emphasized that my siblings and I keep the house really clean and organized. Today I am all about cleanliness and organization simply because I grew up seeing that in my mum.

Reference

Feldman, R. (2017). Understanding Psychology. [VitalSource Bookshelf]. Retrieved from https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/1260380