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Title: Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in Modules)


1
Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in
Modules)
  • Module 6
  • The Nurture of Behavior
  • James A. McCubbin, PhD
  • Clemson University
  • Worth Publishers

2
Environmental Influence
  • Two placental arrangements in identical twins

3
Environmental Influence
  • Experience affects brain development

4
Environmental Influence
  • A trained brain

5
Environmental Influence
  • Culture
  • the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and
    traditions shared by a large group of people and
    transmitted from one generation to the next
  • Norm
  • an understood rule for accepted and expected
    behavior
  • Personal Space
  • the buffer zone we like to maintain around our
    bodies

6
The Nature and Nurture of Gender
  • X Chromosome
  • the sex chromosome found in both men and women
  • females have two males have one
  • an X chromosome from each parent produces a
    female child
  • Y Chromosome
  • the sex chromosome found only in men
  • when paired with an X chromosome from the mother,
    it produces a male child

7
The Nature and Nurture of Gender
  • Testosterone
  • the most important of the male sex hormones
  • both males and females have it
  • additional testosterone in males stimulates
  • growth of male sex organs in the fetus
  • development of male sex characteristics during
    puberty
  • Role
  • a set of expectations (norms) about a social
    position
  • defining how those in the position ought to behave

8
The Nature and Nurture of Gender
  • Gender Role
  • a set of expected behaviors for males and females
  • Gender Identity
  • ones sense of being male or female
  • Gender-typing
  • the acquisition of a traditional masculine or
    feminine role

9
The Nature and Nurture of Gender
10
The Nature and Nurture of Gender
  • Social Learning Theory
  • theory that we learn social behavior by observing
    and imitating and by being rewarded or punished
  • Gender Schema Theory
  • theory that children learn from their cultures a
    concept of what it means to be male and female
    and that they adjust their behavior accordingly

11
The Nature and Nurture of Gender
  • Two theories of gender typing
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