PSYCH 129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Microsoft Powerpoint, Verbal Behavior, Social Perception
4 Apr 2016
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The drive to be social may be evoluionary in nature. Social neuroscience describes brain funcions associated with social acivity. Can we survive without being social: neurological we need to interact with humans, we have complex human emoions and ability to create social networks. Children who were psychopathic had no desire to be part of a family, lacked social skills. People who grew up in great families but were never able to get the sense of social behavior most likely tend to become socially awkward. People with social issues oten lack social nurturing when irst born. Inability to operate in a social environment they are unable to communicate in social seings. Choose nurture over substance: he tried to study the science of love, using the monkeys to study love harlow relieved that love make a huge impact on a young life. Result is that early love and nurture in early life is extremely important.
