Week 9 Flashcards
What are Baumrind’s 4 styles of parenting?
Describe the Heinz Dilemma
- Woman is dying and needs medicine
- Druggist is selling them medicine for 10x the MSRP
- Heinz could only raise half the amount of money required to purchase the medicine
- Heinz steals the medicine
Should Heinz have done that?
Describe the typical response of those in the “Preconventional level” (~preschool)
Self-centered; seeks reward and avoids punishment (eg. “You’ll get caught” or “You’ll get in trouble”)
Should Heinz have done that?
Describe the typical response of those in the “Conventional level” (~grade school)
Compliant with social/familial duties and laws (eg. “You have to protect your family” or “You have to obey the law”)
Should Heinz have done that?
Describe the typical response of those in the “Postconventional level” (teens and adults)
Ideal centered; moral principles (eg. “Valuing something more than lif is immoral” or “ The law is wrong”)
Describe Hamlin, Wynn, & Bloom’s experiment 1
Children shown a climber attempting to climb a hill and was either helped or hindered; asked to choose between helper and hinderer
* 10-month-olds: most chose helper
* 6-month-olds: all chose helper
Describe Hamlin, Wynn, & Bloom’s experiment 2
Same as experiment 1 but with inanimate objects
* Infants’ moral expectations are relevant only to social situations
* No preference between helper and hinderer in non-social settings
Define aggression
Behavior aimed at harming or injuring others
Describe the “Hostile Attribution” bias
Assuming hostility and not giving others the benefit of the doubt
What are the consequences of the hostile attribution bias?
- Searches for evidence of hostility
- Have more hostile encounters
- Believe aggression is effective at reducing negative treatment by others
- Leads to self-fulfilling prophecy
