PSYC 100 Chapter : Social Development.

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

The reason that humans , chimps, and dolphins have developed brains so large is to meet the cognitive demands of social living: constant competition in the environment, competition for resources and mates within the same species. The reason for the evolutionary growth of the brain is to provide an advantage to social creatures over others of their species. People who we have opportunity to observe and by doing so, we learn to behave appropriately: anyone in our environment can be a model, early in life or social world is dominated by care givers. We learn appropriate behaviour and inappropriate behaviour through enforcement rules by caregivers: consistent punishment can reduce unwanted behaviour, positive punishment is less effect than positive reinforcement. Punishment can provide behaviour changes and does not teach children to behaviour appropriately in the long term. Types of discipline experienced by children affect their empathy and moral decision making: induction was most responsible for empathetic moral development.