Psychologists Flashcards
1996 Knight, Fabes and Higgens
Boys more likely to be aggressive and men to commit violent crimes
Girls more likely to be nurturing
Will et al 1976
Baby X study
Melatesta 1989
Boys turned out girls turned in
Conway and Vartanian 2000
Girls encouraged to be expressive, boys instrumental
Williams and Best 1990
Girls encouraged to be expressive, boys instrumental is displayed in al societies
Mitchell et al 1989
Twin study
Servin et al 2003
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Kimura 1999
Brain differences
Eliot 2009
Men also have larger bodies than women
Hines 2004
Only a single nucleus in the hypothalamus is sometimes bigger in male brains
Bourne and Maxwell 2010
Brain lateralisation
Geschwind and Galaburda 1985
Testosterone implicated in development of cerebral lateralisation
Kohlberg
Moral development stages
Paulus
Selfishness beats fairness until 6-8
Sheskin
5 year olds will take a loss so others have less
Even 9-10 year olds struggle with quality fairness
Blake and McAuliffe
An 8 year old will take a loss to avoid having more
Gilligan
Kohlberg’s model is gender biased
Miller and Bersoff
Chinese more collectivist and Americans more individualistic
Children help more in less industrialised nations
Sloane et al
An appreciation for fairness emerges very early in infancy
Rochat et al 2009
3 year olds distribute goods evenly amongst third parties
Sieglman and Waitzman
5 year olds consider relative need amp day amount of work
Shaw and Olson
6-8 year olds will discard resources if they can’t be distributed fairly
Rousseau
Born pure good but get corrupted
Hobbs
Born evil and must be disciplined into goodness