Vocab
adapting in our current enviornemt
Learning
Sets the basic course of development
Maturation
The social expectations that guide people's behavior as men or women
Gender Roles
Experamentt with white bunnies
Little Albert
Our capacity to learn new behaviors that can help us cope with our changing world
Adaptability
Small muscles of the body
Fine motor
Violent acts mostly committed by men
Aggression
Expirament having to do with dogs and bells
Pavlov's Dogs
Certain chemicals/agents that can cause harm if ingested or contracted by the mother
Teratogens
Sexually maturing
Puberty
3 differences between genders
aggression, social power, & social connectedness
organism associate their own actions with consequences
Operant Conditioning
The initial learning of an association
Acquisition
Years spent from child to adult
Adolescence
helps us think about our gender identity
Gender schemas
Reinforce a response after a fixed time period
Fixed-interval scheduling
Leaving chemical marks on DNA that switch genes abnormally on or off
Epigenetic Effect
4 effects of sexually explicit materials:
accelerating sexual activity, believing rape is acceptable, reducing satisfaction with a partner's appearance or with a relationship, & desensitization