PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: 6 Years, Observational Learning, Gender Role
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Gender typing in non-western socities increase sexual stereotypes goals for socialization: acquiring the trials above, children are stressed to be gender typed. Psychologically different: elenor mackabey, looked at studies for determining psychological differences between men and women. Boys are more aggressive and are more responsive to parents than kids. Biological: hormonal differences that make them predisposed to gender differences. Social theories: psychoanalytical theory- social biological factors are all inherited biologically through characteristics but developed a gender identity: child identifies with same sex parents. They acquire their sexuality stereotypes between 3-5 years of age. Social learning: acquire gender directly through parents, teachers, and adults, reinforce correct gender types and punish the wrong ones: observational learning: learning through same sex models children don"t pay attention to same sex parent. Children make a cognitive judgement about the self, this brings them to identify with same sex models: depends on basic cognitive development, basic gender, gender stability, gender consistency.