Gender
Boys
Need movement and are motivated by stress and competition.
Girls
Need social interaction in lessons by working in groups
17-21 year old students
Piagetian Operational stage
Formal Operation
Can understand many hypothetical concepts
Attention Span
About 18 minutes before
they need to change activities
Sociology-aspects of Social life
Biology-Reproduction
among small organisms
Horticulture- characteristics
of producing different plants
Norms and values
What is a norm?
Defining features
A standard of behavior or rule
Applicable in many situations
Shared by a group of any size
Correlational features
Thinking that a norm
is simply common sense.
Thinking that a norm
is just common courtesy.
Thinking that norms can never
be broken in appropriate situations
Exemplars
Don’t stand too close to a stranger that your hips or shoulders touch
Girls wear pink and boys wear blue
Men typically open the door for women to buildings
Call to let people know that you won’t be coming to an appointment
Prototype
When someone sneezes, say “bless you”
Leave a tip for the waiter
Non-examples
Be honest at all times
Thinking skinny people are not as funny as fat people
Laws like not selling guns
Possible Misconceptions
Undergeneralization
Thinking that norms have to be widely known to belong to a group. Sometimes there are norms that only part of a group understands but will eventually spread
Overgeneralization
Thinking that all beliefs or opinions are norms like thinking that cats are better than dogs even though that is a belief that your family has.