1what is pathogen avoidance ?
is an adaptive system that guides behavior to avoid infection caused by parasites such as viruses
2what is the blank slate theory ?
people born as a blank slate
3who invented the blank slate theory ?
born in 1965 as 'Brucce' ( twin of Brian )
4acoording to the blank slate theory how is behaviour created ?
culture progams our behaviour ( transmitted culture )
cultured free to vary any direction on any trait
5what is an unimportant factor of behaviour acoording to the blank slate theory ?
biology unimportant in understanding brhaviour
6when did cultural psychology start ?
1990
7what is one difference between western and estern cultures ?
western cultures : more analyic
estern cultures : more holsitic
8what is the main problem of the blank salte theory ?
difference between countries as small
9what problem about the BST regardin areas of the world do we see ?
not consistent between W and E countries
10what is a problem regarding the scale used in BST?
no standard scale used , different scales give different results
11what is a problem in the BST regarding pathigen avoidance ?
value differences may be evoked culture (pathogen avoidance )
12what are the integrated nautre and nurture model rules ?
1. humans are vorn with emotional , motivation and cognitive adaptations
2. behaviour results form interactions between adaptation and cultural and environmental influnces
3. culture itself is based on universal human nature ( culture is an extention of our biology)
4. nature and nurture jointly determine human behaviour
5. crosscultural psychology
13what are evoked personality differences ?
selective pressures favoring one type of personality more in one region than another region
14what are transmitted personality differences ?
Culture favors one ideal trait over other traits
15how can pathogen avoidance be seen ?
we can see more introverted personality in coultries where there have been more diseases
16how has the social media changes the political climate ?
so that the extrem voices are the 'loudest'
17what are the two different political extrimists ?
iliberal right
iliberal left
18how are illiebral rights ?
explicitly xenophobic, often racist
dogmatism , obedince to authority
19how are illiberal lefts ?
focused on opression , victimhood and victimization
negtaive emotionality , support centralized state
20what do illiberal rights and left have in common ?
both moral absolutism , coercion , violence agains opponents
21how is online agression ?
most people not more aggresivve online than offline
small gorup agressives make more victims online
22what are uni's teach 3 great untruths ?
1. 'what does not kill you makes you weaker'
2. 'alweys trust your feelings '
3. 'life is a figth between good and bad people'
23what is Jhon / Joan case ?
boatched circumicsion , changed sex when small
24what was the first expression of gender ?
cultural expression sex differences
25what is geneder seen as now ?
social construction of 'sex'
26what is sex ?
biological , XX vs XY chromosomes , primary and secondary differences
27what are the percentages of sex ?
98% to 99,8% man / women
.20% en 1.72% intersex
28how are the differences between sexes ?
statisitcally small differences
29what are some differences in women ?
women : more social skiss
women tend to be all roudners ( good at amth , good at reading )
( woman clsuter around the avere, man can be found ariund the tales)
30what are some differences in men ?
men tend to be good at one thing
men outferform eomen at most visual saptial tasks and mechanical resoning
men are more variable across all cognitive tasks
more man are either really rich or really poor
31how do men an women differ in extraversion ?
men : dominant , assertiv , risk seeking and thrill seekin
women : sociable and sensitive
32how do men and wome differe in agreebelness ?
men : agressive
women : warm , compassioante , polite
33how are men and women different in neuroticism ?
men : tought and emotionally stable
women : anxious and self doubting
34how do men and women differ in openess ?
men : open for abstrac ides
women : open for aestetics
35how are men percieved across cultures ?
as more instrumental and more interested in things
36how are women prercieved across cultures ?
as more communal and more interested in people
37what does infunece personality in correlation to gender stereotypes ?
influences of parents, teachers , peers, media
social modeling (Bandura)
gender roles
38why do women in modern societies have more freedom?
contraceptives
equal opportunities
more white collar jobs
flexible working conditions
39what is the socialization theory ?
more egalitarian cultures lead to :
socialisation theory : smaller sex differences
preference theory : larger sex differeces
40what is the preference theory ?
more gender equal countries have fewer women in STEM fields than less equal countries
41how can we explain the preference theory ?
women broader profiles than man
greather gender gap associated with more life satisfaction
42how will egalitarin tretment make people behave ?
the more man and women are treated the same the mroe different they will become
43why will egalitarinsm make peole differet ?
'A conventional wisdom in personality and social psychology and organizational behavior is that personality matters most in weak situations and least in strong situations.'