PARENTING STYLES

1. How would you characterize the style of parenting under which you were raised? Was the same style used by both of your parents?
2. What specific behavioral effects of your upbringing can you identify in yourself?
3. How about your parents' upbringing? How would they (or you) characterize the style of parenting used by their parents (your grandparents)?
4. Now think creatively about who you might have been had you been raised by other parents. Prepare three brief descriptions of how you might have developed using any  three styles of parenting (use above web sites).

HOW DO WE FORM SOCIAL STEREOTYPES?

1. Impression Formation Exercise:  In Asch's study, hypothetical individuals whose trait list contained "warm" were rated more favorably overall than those whose trait list contained "cold." Did you rate Person 1 ("warm") more favorably than Person 3 ("cold") even though all the other traits were identical?

2. According to the study, how do people form impressions of personality?

3. Test Your Attributes Activity:  Did your results demonstrate illusory correlation?  Explain.

4. How does stereotyping occur in the adolescence age group?  Present some examples.
   
    

ANDROGYNY (click link on new page)

1. Report your scores.

2. Evaluate your score.  Which side did you exhibit more characteristics?  Do you agree with the test results?  Why or why not?

3. What was the difference in your score?

4. What is an androgynous individual?

5. In general, is it easier for women to display behaviors that are more traditionally masculine than it is for men to display traditionally feminine behaviors?
    

TILL DEATH DO US PART (click link on new page)

1. Besides physical attractiveness, what other factors attract people to each other?

2. Why do you think the statistical trend show unmarried people becoming more happy?

3. Why do you think married people statistically live longer than single people?