01:830:338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Feminist Psychology, Karen Horney, Corporal Punishment

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:338
• Professor: L.Stein

Document Summary

Societal structures: gender differences in emotionality, popular images: E. g. , parents discussing emotions: what leads to gender differences, theories emphasizing the person: Trait theories: theories taking into account the situation: Interactionism: psychoanalytic theory of gender, identification with same-sex parent, phallic stage. Boys: oedipal crisis identify w/ dad. Girls: electra crisis identify w/ mom: problems with freud"s theory. Based on (unhealthy) patients: neoanalytic theories of gender, karen horney. Attributes male inferiority, power, and achievement orientation to inability to bear children: carl jung: animus and anima , nancy chodorow. Girls: connect with mom focus on relationships. Boys: separate from mom focus on independence: biological approaches to gender, prenatal exposure to sex hormones. Little solid evidence of links to personality: strongest effect (which is still small) found for females" exposure to androgens, for males, little clear evidence of links between prenatal hormones. Strict societal rules may override: pubertal/adult exposure to sex hormones. Few links to personality for most girls/women: sex differences in the brain.