Exam #3 Flashcards
Sex
Genetic/biological component
Gender
Behavioral, cultural, and psychological component
Gender identity
Perception of oneself as male or female (or transgender), closely tied to gender roles
Gender-typed behavior/gender roles
Behavior that matches what is socially or culturally typical for one’s gender
Gender stereotypes
Cultural beliefs about gender differences in behaviors or attributes
Evolutionary theory
Males and females need different strategies to enhance survival of the species, adaptive behaviors passed down through genes
Limitations of evolutionary theory
Hard to test, does not account for individual differences or recent rapid changes in gender roles, does not explain cultural differences in gender roles, limited role of environment
Social Cognitive Theory
Children engage in observational learning about gender from models, receive feedback from environment (rewards and punishments)
Gender Schema Theory
Once a child has a sense of their own gender identity, they develop schemas to organize and structure their experiences
Martin and Halverson (1983)
Drawings of children involved in gender “consistent” and “inconsistent” activities, children better at remembering consistent pictures
Social cognitive theory vs gender schema theory
Social-places more emphasis on emotion, motivation, and environment
Gender-places more emphasis on cognitive (child’s perspective)
Liben and Bigler (2002)
Explicit measure, 9-13 year olds, more than half of traits viewed as applying to only one gender
Bian, Leslie, & Cimpian (2017)
Smart game vs try-hard game
5,6,7 years: interested in really smart
6 years: less interested in really smart game
3 components of moral development
- Cognitive
- Behavioral
- Emotional
Piaget’s Cognitive Theory of Moral Judgment (3 stages)
- Premoral stage
- Moral Realism
- Moral Reciprocity
Premoral stage
Young children, show little concern for or awareness or rules
Moral Realism
5 years old, concern about rules that come from some form of authority, rules viewed as unchanging and shouldn’t be questioned
Moral Reciprocity
11 years old, social rules viewed as arbitrary agreements that can be questioned and changed
Limitations of Piaget’s theory
Findings do not generalize to other cultures, underestimates children’s abilities
Immanent justice
Deviation from rules=punishment
Kohlberg’s Cognitive Theory of Moral Judgment (3 levels)
- Preconventional
- Conventional
- Postconventional
Preconventional Level and stages
Justification for behavior is based on desire to avoid punishment (stage 1) and gain rewards (stage 2)
Conventional Level and stages
Based on motive to conform, either to get approval from others (stage 3) or to follow society’s rules and conventions (stage 4)
Postconventional Level and stages
Judgments are controlled by an internalized ethical code that is relatively independent of the approval or disapproval of others
Stage 5: based on society’s consensus about human rights
Stage 6: based on abstract principles of justice and equality
Limitations of Kohlberg’s theory
Data is based only on verbal responses to interviews, hypothetical dilemmas differ from real-life dilemmas
Turiel’s Social Domain Theory (2 domains)
- Social Conventional
2. Psychological
Social Conventional Domain
- Social expectations that help facilitate smooth and efficient functioning of a social system (ex: normals, ways of greeting, etiquette, reciprocity)
- Moral violations are consistently viewed as worse than social convention violations
Psychological Domain
An understanding of self and others as psychological systems
- Personal issues: only affect self
- Prudent issues: immediate physical consequences for self
- Psychological issues: involve beliefs and knowledge of self and others
What age can children understand right vs wrong?
16 months