CAS PS 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Dazed
7 Dec 2018
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Secure: seeks physical contact, easy to soothe. Insecure- resistant: seeks contact, but displays anger. Very individualistic high percentage of children are insecure-avoidant. Parental insensitivity results in less secure attachment. Secure better cognitive and motor attributes, better psychological adjustment. Cultural direction of how males/females are expected to think/feel/behave. Gender-role typing: process by which children acquire the values/motives/behaviors specific to culture. College educated females less likely to view. Males maintain strong gender rales (fathers play a significant role in their children maintaining gender roles) African americans display less emphasis on gender roles. Females are more sociable than males: true. No differences between males and females until they hit puberty. Many say that females are more verbally aggressive, but that"s not true. Females are lower in self-esteem: mixed results, depends on the context. Females and males have lower self-esteem in different areas. Males have greater math ability: partly true, partly false. No difference in infants until 8 years of age.
