Role of the father Flashcards
What has the role of the father been found to be?
More playful, active and better at providing challenging situations to infant. Good playmate.
Give one reason why the role of the father may be different from the mother.
May lack the emotional sensitivity that women offer.
Why may biological factors explain why men are less equipped to form an intense attachment with an infant?
Female hormone oestrogen underlies caring behaviour.
What evidence contradicts the idea that men are less sensitive than women?
Frodi et. at. showed videotapes of infants arguing and found no differences in the physiological responses in men and women.
If biological responses are the same in men and women, why may the role of the father have been so different historically?
Due to gender stereotypes that effect men’s behaviour such as ‘it is feminine to be sensitive to others’.
