PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Millennials, Gender Role, Carol Dweck

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1001
• Professor: Caleb Owens

Document Summary

Motivation, achievement & how to talk to children: outline, misconceptions about self-esteem. Background: case of gender stereotypes and maths. Parents" and teachers" attitudes and how that affects children: the: since 1969"s the psychology of self-esteem (by nathaniel children"s self-esteem as the central factor in determining a. Brandon) a massive social movement has emphasized successful childhood, then life: people though: If children/people have high self-esteem, they will try hard, achieve, have friends, etc. If children have low self-esteem, they will fail in school, have no friends, become drug addicts, etc: so the focus became centred on cultivating high self- esteem. Clearly, liking yourself if better than hating yourself and praising children better is than emotionally abusing them, but many aspects of this story turns out to be wrong. E. g. , teenagers will high self-esteem often drink and do drugs. Often violence can be caused by feelings of narcissistic self-entitlement: millennial generation do appear to have higher self-esteem.