Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ingroups And Outgroups, Parenting Styles, Advanced Maternal Age

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Lynne Zarbatany

Document Summary

Is it used for selfish reasons: 3 prerequisites for helping: understanding of needs, desire and motivation to help, ability to help, helping behaviours begins by 1. 5 years, chimpanzees display helping behaviours, but limited to reaching tasks. Evolutionary roots, suggesting children may be born with predispositions. Wynn and colleagues: less than 1 year difficult to behave prosocially due to motor constraints, karen wynn and colleagues, nice puppet, mean puppet. Children regularly reach toward the nice puppet (5 months), look longer at the nice puppet (3 months). Around 8 years old, they choose the even option. By 11, they choose the generous one that gives the other person more: by 11, children have been culturalised, they know the rules. The bias has been taught to be ignored. Only considering act of giving or taking: 8 months, prefer the puppet that was mean to the previously antisocial puppet. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.