SOCPSY 1Z03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Reinforcement, Gender Role, Moral Development

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Karen Mc Garry

Document Summary

Attachment - a warm, close relationship with an adult that produces a sense of security and provides stimulation - to develop the interpersonal and cognitive skills for proper growth. Birth cohort - a group of people who were born during the same period. Borderwork - an interaction across yet interaction based on an even strengthening- gender boundaries. Career - sequence of roles- each with its own set of activities- that a person enacts during his or her lifetime. Cultural routines - recurrent and predictable activities that are basic day to day social life. Extrinsically motivated - dependent on whether someone else will reward appropriate behaviors or punish inappropriate. Gender role - behavioral expectations associated with ones gender. Instrumental conditioning - process where a person learns what response to make in a situation in order to obtain a positive reinforcement or avoid a negative reinforcement. Internalization - process where initially external behavioral standards become internal and subsequently guide the persons behavior.