PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Selection, Sociobiology, Heterosexuality

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Lizzie Sauber

Document Summary

Female psychologist of the week: mamie clark phd. Developed doll experiment used by lawyers in brown v. board helping to end segregation. Why might it be important to be aware of our worldview about gender. Development similar for boys and girls until phallic stage. Unconscious desire to kill father and marry mother. Internalizes values, beliefs, and ethics of society through father. Unconscious attraction to father, desire to be impregnated. Realize do not have a penis, assume mom cut it off. As jealousy can never be resolved girls never internalize values from mothers. 3 of the key female personality traits identified by freud: To be done to and not to do . Masochism: the desire to experience pain, as in being penetrated, and through childbirth. Ideas derived from a non-diverse small clinical sample. Did not consider other identities as they relate to personality development. Women as masochistic, jealous and lacking moral character.