PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Gender Identity, Homophily, Gender Role

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Erica Refling

Document Summary

Inductive discipline: guiding behaviour introducing appropriate limits and setting up reasonable consequences while also explaining why. To qualify as teaching, the model (teacher) must engage in behaviour that provides benefit to the learner, observed learner must gain mastery of the skill being modeled faster than would happen otherwise. Meerkats are a model for non-human animal teaching the scorpions. Imprinting: a rapid form of learning, typically occurring in a restricted time window after birth, that allows an animal to recognize another animal, person, or thing as an object to be emulated and followed. Attachment: social and emotional bond between infant and caregiver that spans both time and space. Harlow tests bowlby"s theory of attachment with monkeys stayed at the monkey that provided comfort (cloth monkey) & went to wired monkey when hungry need for comfort was so strong it overpowered the need for food. Contact comfort: the comfort that primate babies derive from close physical contact with something soft and warm.