PSYC 3480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Name Calling, Rhesus Macaque, Internal Validity

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Noreen Stuckless

Document Summary

There are men that can be very nurturing. Slide 4 & 5 : social factors related to size of gender. Diff in social + personality charactteristics: ie david empathy scale, tendency for females to respond to female. Social desirability, responding in a way that people expect you to responds. For males, he would put down what society would put down. Single bars; place to meet people or other of the sex. Women would go to meet men, and men go to meet women heterosexual bar. Knowing what the gender of the person is very important. When they look for difference would be larger. If you go to convention for accountants, not important if they are female or male. Need to know what the sex of the person is the difference is larger: fixing a tire has always been considered a male task, when there is a pop tired, the fellow gets up and fixed it.