Psychology 2012F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Teddy Bear, Reductionism, Psych
13 Apr 2019
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Chapter 5 understanding race, racial stereotypes, and racism. Chapter 6 understanding gender stereotypes and sexism. Invisible factors prevent women from advancing: 1) gender stereotypes may lead to personnel officers to assume that women don"t possess the traits needed to succeed in high status jobs. 2) the qualifications of female job applicants have been shown to be evaluated in the context of other women rather than all applicants. 3) men tend to evaluate other men more positively than women. 4) when men/women do equally well on a masculine task, men are seen as skillful while women as lucky. Intro: sexual identity: the complex personal qualities/self- perceptions/attitudes/values/preferences that guide one"s sexual behaviour, 4 key features: 1) sexual orientation, 2) body image, 3) sexual values/ethics, 4) erotic preferences, sexual socialization, developmental influence: physiological hormones sexual differentiation/behaviour. 7-point scale: origins of homosexuality: environmental influences freudians/learning theorists/sociologists. Chapter 8 understanding obesity stereotypes and weightism.
