PSYCH-200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Slut, Sexual Orientation, Twin

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH-200
• Professor: oye

Document Summary

Happening at younger ages more often (11,12,13) in romantic relationships; fairly shallow: not romantic . At early age have more negative effects on social development (problematic) Strongly influenced by cultural norms when sex first happens. Most believe that age is less important than feelings. Conflict in message that teens get from media vs. message from other cultural sources. Parents, health class: sleep around and you are a slut, pregnant, std (sex bad) Behavior: heterosexual most common, 20% experiment homosexual more women than men, 5% homosexual behavior relationships. Sorting out mistakes/mismatch of biological drives and culturally accepted behavior: easier now because becoming more flexible in cultural norms sexual orientation. Degree to which prenatal brain is exposed to androgen exposure is linked to a wide set of behaviors that is often seen as masculine/feminine. Mentally being able to move objects around. On average men do much better than women. As number of rotations increase gender gap increases making a large difference.