Socio-Cultural and Genetic Influences on Behavior

Socio-cultural and Genetic Influences on Behavior

(Chaps. 4, 9, 10, and 15)

I. Introduction (Lecture 23)

A. Questions

1. Are you male or female?

2. What do you find attractive about members the opposite sex?

3. How do you communicate your interest in a member of the opposite sex?

B. Person and behavior: Expanding the Island

II Socio-cultural influence (lecture 21, Chap 15)

A. Milgram’s obedience to authority study (pp. 534-537)

B. Asch’s conformity study (pp. 532-534)

C. Zimbardo’s Prisoner’s Study (pp. 529-531, 530 box)

D. Roles, norms, and the social control of human behavior (pp. 130, 529, 531, 537-541)

III Genetic Influences (Lecture 22, Chaps. 4, 9)

A. Darwin and natural selection (3:1 – 3:5)

B. Personal and Genetic Survival

C. Gene pools and behavior

D. Universal and Individual Differences (9:6 – 9:7; 9:13 – 9:14)

1.  Ethology and Sociobiology

2.  Evolutionary analyses

3. Behavioral genetics

IV Love and Sex (Lecture 23, Chaps 4, 9, 15)

A. Love and Sex as Motivations (pp. 340, 10:5 – 10:10)

B. Genetics of Love and Sex

1. Need for affiliation

2. Mating strategies (pp. 116-117)

3. Courtship Strategies

4. Evolution, Rape and Homosexuality (10:15)

C. Socio-cultural aspects of Love and Sex

1. Roles and Norms: Gender stereotypes (pp. 126 – 131)

3.  Culture of Desire

D. Individual Aspects of Love and Sex (559 – 560)

1. Psychology of Desire

2. Meaning of love