PSC 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Oedipus Complex, Gender Role, Developmental Psychology
9 May 2019
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Social and personality identity: identification = psychological process where child tries to be like significant people in his/her environment, can be studied in relation to several social categories: gender-role ethnicity religious, nationality. Traditionally females are expected to fulfill expressive roles u focus on building and maintaining interpersonal relationships; nurturance & responsibility. Males are expected to fulfill instrumental roles u focus on acting on the world; achievement and selfreliance. Values, motives, or classes of behavior that are considered more appropriate for members of one gender vs. another u how males and females are expected to behave. Angry at mother for missing penis and therefore wants to marry father: limited empirical evidence for his theory; strongly attacked, chodorow: affiliation leads to intimacy in girls, differentiation leads to rejection of intimacy by boys. Social-learning approach: learning of sex-roles through observation and imitation, parents provide models for children to imitate and selectively reinforce sex-appropriate behavior.
