! ! ! ! ! AS PSYCHOLOGY UNIT 2 (PSYA2) ! SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: Social Influence 2014-2015 ! ! ! ! ! ! Name: …………………………………………………… Unit 2 – Social Psychology – Social Influence Alton College (Updated Sept 2013) ! THE SPECIFICATION What you need to know: ! Social Influence • Conformity (majority influence) and explanations of why people conform‚ including informational social influence and normative social influence. • Types of conformity‚ including internalisation and compliance. • Obedience
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things have always been: in the way my life was always meant to be. Nonetheless‚ the following is my attempt to unearth the scaffoldings that molded me towards this set of identities and to expose the ways in which my pathway through engineering has been (and will be) altered by them. The most complicated of these identities is that of being male. I am as comfortable as it is possible for one to be with the chemical
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Gender Identity Development Gender identity is so important in the developmental stages of children. Gender identity development in children crosses physical‚ emotional‚ social‚ and cognitive barriers. Most people believe that gender identity is not an issue until the children hit puberty. However‚ children develop gender identities starting as young as infancy. Psychologists’ research has shown that there are three stages to child gender identity recognition. The first stage begins to develop
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Describe the biological approach to gender development: After conception‚ each individual in the foetus will inherit 23 chromosomes from each parent (23 pairs overall). Out of these‚ 22 pairs of chromosomes will account for physical characteristics such as your height‚ hair colour‚ skin colour etc. Which means that 1 pair of chromosomes are responsible in your gender. In order to give birth to a male baby there must be a Y chromosome in the form of XY which is given by the sperm cell‚ it is in the
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3. Levine SB‚ editor. Sexual disorders. In: Tasman A‚ Kay J‚ Lieberman J. Psychiatry‚ Second Edition. Hoboken‚ NJ: Wley; 2003. 4. Levine SB. Reexploring the concept of sexual desire. J Sex Marital Ther 2002. 2839–51. [PubMed] 5. Masters WH‚ Johnson VE. Boston: Little‚ Brown & Co.; 1966. Human Sexual Response. 6. Perelman MA. A new combination treatment for premature ejaculation: a sex therapist ’s perspective. J Sex Med. 200 7. http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/sexual-dysfunction 000150.htm#ixzz2Rb3mUQtV
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Describe and evaluate biological explanations of OCD (10 marks) The biological approach as an explanation of OCD believes that the disorder is caused by a fault in our body‚ either through genes‚ hormones‚ the brain‚ or neurotransmitters‚ therefore suggesting that OCD is caused by our nature‚ rather than our upbringing. This means that since we are born with the body we have‚ if we have OCD‚ it is innate within us. One biological explanation for OCD is the genetic explanation. The genetic
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Psychology Perspectives and the Biological Foundations of the Brain Cassandra Tabor PSY/300 October Fifth‚ 2009 University of Phoenix Psychology Perspectives and the Biological Foundations of the Brain Psychology is the scientific investigations of the mental processes such as: behavior‚ thought‚ and emotions. Emerging from philosophy and biology‚ psychology revolutionized the way scientists study the human brain. Wilhelm Wundt‚ the “father of psychology‚” applied scientific research and
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in the Socialization of Gender Identity Word count: 925 By Uniqua Hardy PHOTO ANALYSIS: In this photograph by Pablo Roversi‚ the young girl’s outfit is constructed of garments‚ textures‚ accessories and colors that send out feminine messages. Soft pastel colors‚ pearls‚ butterflies‚ purple eyeshadow‚ a beautiful velvet hot pink bow backgrounded with satin are all undoubtedly considered feminine in our society and by surrounding a young girl around these things gender socialization is being
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Clients. American Psychologist‚ 55‚ pp. 1409-1421. American Psychological Association. (1998). Appropriate therapeutic responses to sexual orientation in the proceedings of the American Psychological Association‚ Available at www.aservic.org. Retrieved March 10‚ 2006. Bailey‚ J. M.‚ Dunne‚ M. P.‚ & Martin‚ N. G. (2000). Genetic and environmental influences on sexual orientation and its correlates in an Australian twin sample. Balsam‚ K.F.; Rothblum‚ E.D.‚ & Beauchaine‚ T.P. (2005). Victimization
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In this chapter it talks about gender identity and how we educators can bring in different methods to help children break down gender stereotypes made in our social norm. Just like racial identity‚ gender identity plays huge role in our society where there are still traditional gender roles exist in many places in the world. During the circle talk‚ many of us mentioned about how certain colors belong to male or female and how everyone can like everyone can like different colors. Even such a small
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