PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Social Exchange Theory, Attachment Theory, Equity Theory
17 Mar 2016
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Box 10. 1 building an independent baby in the bedroom. There are few cultures in the world where leaving the kid sleep alone is customary. Sleeping arrangement predicts fairly well how independent and individualistic a given culture is. Objectivists (ancient greek): beauty is inherent in the properties of objects. Subjectivists: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is in the processing experience of the beholder. People living together may adopt smiler styles of dress and grooming, similar diets, same region of the country - so they look alike. Media - us - obsession with thinness, unhealthy, alarming increase of eating disorder. Weight preference and reliability of the food supply. Box 10. 5 critical thinking about the variable being measured. We are interested in the relationship between variables, but we are restricted to woking with measures of those variables - could cause problems and wrong conclusions. Box 10. 6 this is your brain in love.
