Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Observational Learning, Psych, Social Constructionism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Campbell

Document Summary

Parenting contributes to children developing a gender identity. This becomes a central aspect of our personal identity. Ages 4-12 spend more time in same-gender groups. Organized mental structures that contains our understating of behaviours that are appropriate for males and families. Social constructionism: asserts that individuals construct their own reality based on societal expectations, conditioning, and self- socialization. People"s belief about gender are rooted in the conditioning that permeates our socialization experiences. A strategy used to make predictions based on experience. Loss frame: people become risk prone (more willing to take a risk to avoid a loss) Learning that occurs by observing the behaviour of a model. Boys had trouble urinating and doctors says they should be circumcised. Dr john money thought you can pushed to female or male in the first 2 years of your life. He did a lot of work with the intrasexual people. She taken her son to see the dr.