HDFS 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Emotion, Social Learning Theory, Grammatical Gender

• School: UConn
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS 1070
• Professor: Ronald Sabatelli

Document Summary

Developmental tasks (serves as foundation for later development, lifespan consequences) Gender identification - kids begin to develop working models of themselves. Self theory self esteem , evaluating themselves. Peer play - radius of significant others, just your parents to the people you play with. As a little boy or a little girl we begin to understand that our sex is permanent that we have a biological sex. Once we understand the permanency and specialness of it, we begin the process of figuring out how we"re supposed to act as boys and girls. Sometimes we"re a little too worried about kids who are fascinated about their biology. Most of us repressed it out of us. Comment on gender identity and sexual orientation sexual orientation - preferences for sexual partners, hetero, homo, bi. Evolving from elementary and middle school years. Gender identity - different issue (masculine and feminine)