PSYCO241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex, Thought Suppression, Orbitofrontal Cortex
3 Oct 2016
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Social identity theory: theory that people define and value themselves largely in terms of social groups with which they identify. Social role theory: theory that gender differences in behavior, personality, and self definitioin arise because of history of role distribution between sexes (imitation same sex parents, gender toys, sex role socialization) Males and females may take on the roles they are intrinsically good at, ie biology allows males to be good at leadership, and power, and females nutureing and childbearing. Gender roles in society assumed to be natural / product of history. Can be malleable or stable: depending on social situation, some aspects are stable (those that are viewed as most important for sense of self) Self-schema: integrated set of memories, beliefs, generalizations about an attribute that is central to self concept. May include memories of specific compassionate acts you took.
