PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Chromosome, Exclusive Or, Mental Rotation
12 Sep 2014
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Why submit a 5-10 line text for each question. Minimalist and maximalist views: minimalist: few differences between women and men, maximalist: large, fundamental differences between women and men; differences are part of their essential biological nature sexual world: a continuum not polarities. Essentialism: gender differences are biologically determined (e. g. born a woman, you will die a woman) Functionalism: attempts to understand how the mind functions; a practical and applied orientation; including an interest in mental abilities and in gender differences of those abilities. Behaviourism: emphasizes importance of observable behaviour as the subject matter of psychology; discounts the utility of unobservable mental events. Weisstein"s 1970 paper: contaminated by biases, wishes and fantasies about women oedipus complex became electra complex (criticism at freud and psychology) Apa division 35: women once denied joining apa, women started there own group; created huge interest; a year later they were welcome to join.
