PSY 4122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Family Values, Foreplay, Double Standard
28 Apr 2018
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Values, Attitudes, Beliefs, Assumptions, Perspectives,
Biases
What’s the difference?
Values: regard or importance given to something
-Ethics, standards, codes of behaviours afforded to something
Attitudes: way of thinking or feeling about something, cognitive or affective evaluation of something
-Judgements
-Gut, emotional feelings
Belief: confidence or acceptance that a statement is true
-Often based on experience
Assumption: acceptance that something is true without questioning or proof
Perspective: way of viewing something
Bias: show inclination towards or against something
-Prejudice in favour or against something/someone
Cross-Cultural Codes on Twenty Sexual Attitudes and Practices (Broude & Greene, 1976)
186-200 societies around the world with independent cultures
-Unrelated geographies and linguistics
Examine the patterning of sexual attitudes and practices within a given society (p. 410)
-Typically used ethnographic research methods
Are societies generally permissive or restrictive?
-Permissive: more openness about sexuality, sex is encouraged and viewed in a more positive light
-Restrictive: lots of constraints around sexuality, less openness around different types of sexuality
Are societies generally secure or anxious?
-Secure: comfortable in themselves and other people as sexual beings
•Approach aspect to sexuality
•Linked to permissiveness
-Anxious: discomfort regarding sex
Codes they dropped because there wasn’t enough information written in the descriptions:
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Document Summary
Ethics, standards, codes of behaviours afforded to something. Attitudes: way of thinking or feeling about something, cognitive or affective evaluation of something. Belief: con dence or acceptance that a statement is true. Assumption: acceptance that something is true without questioning or proof. Cross-cultural codes on twenty sexual attitudes and practices (broude & greene, 1976) 186-200 societies around the world with independent cultures. Examine the patterning of sexual attitudes and practices within a given society (p. 410) Permissive: more openness about sexuality, sex is encouraged and viewed in a more positive light. Restrictive: lots of constraints around sexuality, less openness around different types of sexuality. Secure: comfortable in themselves and other people as sexual beings: approach aspect to sexuality, linked to permissiveness. Codes they dropped because there wasn"t enough information written in the descriptions: Heterosexual play in childhood (attitudes and beliefs) Modesty in bathing and toilet habits in adulthood. Attitude towards desirability of frequent sex in marriage.
