CHYS 2P10 Lecture : Callous Empathy/Family
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teaching how other people feel when bad things happen to them does not make psychopaths care more about people, but rather it makes them more violent. Shallow emotional affect: do not have emotional swings. Some form of biological component - but unsure about what exactly it is. In general, moral development appears to become more sophisticated with age. Little evidence for specific morality-related aspects to development vs. general advances in social cognition. The family as a social system y the family is a social system: most important function is to socialize children y. 35% of canadians at some point at hungry, meaning that canada is not as well off as we would like to think we are. Age of first child age has gone up (around 27 year olds: this is a problem if you want to have more children, building a career seems more important. Look after kids, then look after children"s kids.