Ch. 9-10 Development And Sexuality Flashcards
Nature and Nurture Development
Nature: 23 chromo. From dad and 23 from mom
Nurture: malnutrition, drugs, fetal alcohol syndrome
Lifespan of development
From birth to death.
Development doesn’t stop until you die.
Schema
Your mental representation of something
Assimilation
Boob to bottle
Similar and easier to move to
Accommodation
Changing Schema
Boob/bottle to actual food.
Completely different from before.
Piaget’s four stages of development
Sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, formal operational
Sensorimotor: object permanence
Birth-2 yrs.
Receiving and acting on stimuli (learning how to experience/manipulate objects)
No object permanence
Thinking = external (we don’t know if they truly think.
Pre-operational: egocentric language
2-7yrs.
Thinking becomes more internal
Language: representation of action
Ego-centric: can’t think from another person’s point of view.
No conservation (blocks rearranged = diff. Amount of blocks to them)
Concrete operational: conservation, concrete concepts
7-11 yrs.
Understand conservation
Less egocentric
More logical thought
Concrete thinking: no abstract hypotheticals.
Follow rules
Formal operational: abstract concepts, out of the box thinking
Age 12
Abstract thinking
Test tube experiment: logical order.
Debates
Aging: activity theory
Maintain a healthy activity level and you’ll be healthier and happier.
Aging
Mental ability steady until around 60
Erikson: ego integrity v. Despair
Sex
Sexual activity
Male or female
Gender
Masculinity and femininity. Not scientific identifier.
Gender role
Behaviors, attitudes, personality traits designated as masculine or feminine in a certain culture.
Gender stereotype
Beliefs and expectations regarding gender role.
Gender personality: nurturing v. Assertive
Women are more nurturing
Men are more assertive
Gender cognitive differences
Women better:
Verbal: reading and writing
Location of objects
Men better at:
Math
Rotating objects (spatial ability)
Sex differences
Men: permissive attitude, greater number of partners, earlier start age than women avg.
Women: opposite findings
Can we trust it? Who did young guys sleep with?
Human sexual response cycle
Excitement
Plateau
Orgasm
Resolution
Sexual orientation
Hard to measure
Hetero, homo, bi
1-21% of Pop. “Is” homosexual.
STI’s
Bacterial: gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia
Parasitic: crabs
Viral: HSV, HIV, HPV
