PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Parenting Styles, Mental Model, Social Learning Theory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

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Identify the influences affecting social development (both indirect and direct). Our social environment plays a tremendous role in how we develop (direct) The social brain hypothesis is an idea that was put forth to explain the evolution of intelligence (indirect) o. According to this hypothesis, people and chimps/dolphins have developed large brains that are metabolically demanding to meet cognitive demands of social living. Animals don"t just struggle in their environment to survive; they struggle for interpersonal attention/resources. o. Individual with the highest ability to outsmart their competitors will be the most likely to survive and mate. o. Greater cognitive abilities would be selected for, and eventually larger brains will become the norm throughout a population. o. The hypothesis suggests that the growth of the brain provides an advantage to social creatures over other species. Describe how observational learning contributes to our social development. Our social environment plays a tremendous role in how we develop.