PSYC 3480 Lecture 4: women-lect04

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Noreen Stuckless

Document Summary

The fridge art lecture (cid:1007) theories a(cid:271)out children"s understandings of gender: 1. Theories of gender identity development has 4 theories of how gender identity develop: 1. psychodynamic theories or psychoanalytic theories (freud) everything is inside your head, 2. Social learning theories albert bandura- everything is outside (parental practices: 3. Cognitive developmental theory internal cognitive processes: 4. Gender schema theory recently developed sandra bam (gender schema theory is a combination of cognitive developmental theory and social learning theory: 2. Kessle(cid:396) & m(cid:272)ke(cid:374)(cid:374)a"s (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1011)(cid:1012)(cid:895) (cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h o(cid:374) ge(cid:374)de(cid:396) att(cid:396)i(cid:271)utio(cid:374)s: 3. They are rewarded or punished for specific gender-role behaviour through parental positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement or no reinforcement and punishment. The older the child, the more likely the child was to attribute gender correctly to their one picture one month later: only 3rd graders 8-9 old were 100% accurate in identifying the gender of their, (cid:1007). A good reason for gender is dichotomise (has 2 values) one or the other 2.