PSYC1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Working Mother, Lgbt, Gender Role
12 Jul 2018
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Increase in maternal employment would decrease quality: quality of mother-child interactions does not diminish in working mothers, working mother spend more time engaging infants in social interactions, during 1st year of life, results are not consistent. In low-income families early maternal employment can lead to better adjusted children at 7 years. Media and child development: early studies showed that educations tv shows had beneficial effects on development, watching sesame street was associates with high vocabulary, with positive effects persisting through to high-school. Screen time has increased dramatically: 61% of programs of usa tv contained violence, one 6 us tv networks there is an average of 4. 4 violent incidents per hour, violence tends to be glamourized and trivialised. Scientific debate on the topic is over: media violence has a negative effect on children in 4 different ways. Seeing violent acts result in social learning though imitation (banduras bobo dolls) Viewing aggression primes children"s own aggressive thoughts, feelings and tendencies.
