CHYS 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Margaret Mead, Eugenics, Anal Stage
14 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
•CHYS 2P10
Dr. Tony Volk
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Today’s Lecture
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Later chapter pg #s change
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Review seminar structure
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Lecture 2
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The basic structure of the seminars revolves around debates
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Debates are a good way to critical examine issues related to the course
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Debate topics will be posted that correspond to topics covered in lectures as a way of
building on lectures
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During seminars, students will individually (or sometimes in pairs) debate for or against a
given topic
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These debates must be based on scientific evidence, some of which will be provided for you,
some of which you’ll need to find on your own
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Debates will be evaluated 50/50 by the TAs and by your peers
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Peer grade will be the class average
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Good evaluations are also part of your grade- they are you seminar participation component
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POINT FORM ONLY ALLOWED for debate presentation notes; max 10 cue cards; TAs WILL
inspect them at start
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These debates will also lead to a paper on the topic you debate that includes responses to
questions from the class and arguments from your opponent
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Winner gets 1 bonus mark
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I expect to see improvements in the paper vs. the debate
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Paper formatting is very important in order for it to be universally fair
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Do not f&*@$*@ waste both our time!
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We WILL detect it, you WILL be punished, it WON’T be worth it
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1.Take a late penalty or low grade instead, you will end up with a better grade and far
less hassle
2. Do not “copy and paste”
Avoid big chunks of sentences
You can resubmit it twice (no more than 5%)
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3. Read the paper and then put it aside! (going EARLY helps too)
To avoid “accidental” plagiarism, we are allowing students to resubmit their
assignment once
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Each submission will come with a turnitin.com report that should not have full
sentences copied (5% or less is usually ideal)
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Plagiarism
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NO late resubmissions (past seminar)
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Seminars
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Child Development
Major
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Genetics
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Environment
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Development, as we’ll see next week, is a combination of the two
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Highly sensitive to talk about biology
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For political and practical reasons, nurture often gets extra credit
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Easier to alter environment rather than DNA
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In reality, nurture is what we can control more easily than nature, so we tend to focus on it more
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Not one that is more important
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Nature/Nurture
Week 2: Theories of Human Development
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It is the interaction between the two
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Not one that is more important
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Not nature vs nurture but nature with nurture
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Children development is always the combination between the two
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“We also recognized that there were dangers in such a formulation…We knew how politically
loaded discussions of inborn differences could become; we knew that the Russians had
abandoned their experiment in rearing identical twins when it was found that, even reared under
different circumstances, they displayed astonishing likeness. By then [1935] it seemed clear to us
that the further study of inborn differences would have to wait for less troubled times.”
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Sexual development was cultural determine
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Eugenics movement- scared of inborn differences
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Margaret Mead
6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939
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Sexual desires
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Want immediate satisfaction
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The id represents the basic urges
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Referee between the two
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Balance the needs of the id and the superego
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The ego represents the rational component of the mind
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The superego represents the conscience, morality
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There is a conflict with the ego trying to control the id and the superego tries to make sure
that fits one’s morals
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Three Components of Personality
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Freud believed that development progressed through different stages
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Everyone had these stages and went through them in the same order
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Stages were universal in existence and in their order
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Success in a stage was not required for passing on to a later stage
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Changes in one’s environment and maturation leads to stage progression
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Oral stage
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Anal stage
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Phallic/ edaphus stage
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Adolescence stage
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Freudian Stages
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Diet
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Matters: what happens inside of us are often things that we are not aware of
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The importance of the unconscious
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Echoed in adulthood
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Child template at a young age
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The importance of childhood in determining later development
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Internal conflict
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Freud’s Contributions
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Dr. Sigmund Freud
Broader exposure of different contexts
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He studied combat soldiers, child-rearing amongst the Sioux and Yurok, play in normal and
abnormal children, adolescent identity, popular culture and adolescents, and social behavior in
India
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Driven to interact with other people
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Erikson believed in psychosocial, rather than psychosexual, forces
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Believe in stages, but added adult stages to Freud’s five childhood stages
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Placed a much stronger influence on culture than Freud
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Epigenesis: self-creation, rather then you were the creation of your genes and
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Believed in epigenesis as the core of development
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General Theory
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Erik Erikson
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Document Summary
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