PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Lawrence Kohlberg, Chromosome, Terror Management Theory
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Socioemotional development in adolescence: the emergence of identity. Ethnic identity within a larger culture: biculturalism. Identifying in some ways with their ethnic minority group and in other ways with the majority culture. Parents and peers: help the adolescent answer the central questions of identity, effective monitoring is crucial. Gender: refers to the broad set of characteristics of people as males and females. Biology and gender development: humans normally have 46 chromosomes arranged in pairs, 23 pair may have, two x-shaped chromosomes, which produces a female, both an x-shaped and un (upside-down) y-shaped chromosome, which produces a male. Gender schema: mental framework for understanding what it means to be male or female in one"s culture, children acquire schemas through learning in the social world. Social experience influence gender development: gender roles. Involve expectations of how females and males should think, act, and fee: represent beliefs about appropriate behavior for the sexes, gender similarities hypothesis.
