PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Social Cognitive Theory, Social Learning Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory
23 Nov 2016
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Acquire appropriate social roles: to be part of a group, individuals must have a function that complements the group, roles: supervisor, parent, friend, teacher, functions: lead employees, nurture children, facilitator. Gender = social role: boys and girls learn gender appropriate behaviors from members of their society, what is appropriate is affected by: Agents of socialization: they exert their influence: in different ways and at different times, each agent has its own functions, sometimes they complement each other-- other times they contradict each other. Gender roles: qualities individuals understand to characterize males and females in their culture, sextyping = classification into gender roles based on biological sex, bidirectional = children"s own desires can influence adults" behaviour, despite gender curriculum. Social learning or social cognitive theory (mischel, bandura) Theories of gender role development: psychoanalytic theory (freud, cognitive-development theory (kohlberg, gender schema theory (bem, martin, halverson)
