PSYCH-AD 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Learning Theory, Jean Piaget, Depth Perception
13 Sep 2016
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Sex is determined by your twenty third pair of chromosomes. Father donates either x or y chromosome. Y chromosome triggers testes to develop and produce testosterone. Frontal lobes, involved in verbal fluency, thicker in women. Parietal cortex, area for space perception is thicker in men. Other studies report differences in hippocampus, amygdala, and volume of brain gray matter vs. white matter. Social learning theory: children learn gender-linked behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished. Gender- schema theory:explains that we internalize messages about gender into cognitive rules about how each gender should behave. Gender roles: set of expected behaviors for males and for females. Gender identity: one"s sense of being male or female. 1) follow same group of people over a course of many years and evaluating same traits every time. Cross-sectional: sample groups at same time and compare among age groups. Developmental psychology perspectives: nature vs. nurture, continuity of development vs.
