Learning And Memory Analysis

Kelsey Scott
12/01/2016
Writing Assignment
Learning and Memory

Internalized Misogyny in Post- Communist Romania: Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Sorana Constantinescu facilitated an insightful lecture and discussion. This discussion was based on her experimental findings while researching the misogynistic attitudes in Romanian women. From this discussion I was able to gather that this country has communist ideology that has been very deeply ingrained into the culture and the mindset of the Romanian population. With these ideologies being so deeply ingrained within the society it has hindered the country's progress when it comes to facilitating the discussion for gender equality along the lines of the political and social spectrum. The
There are so many concepts that were tied in with this lecture. For example, stereotypes, attitudes, social contingencies learning through social conformity, and behavior. Referring to what was covered throughout the course of the semester human behaviors are learned and can be shaped based off of several emotional as well as environmental cues. These very cues can shape how individuals perceive as well as interact with with people. Behavior ties in perfectly with this lecture and I say this because the way the majority of the population treated women was learned. It wasn't like one day the majority arrived to the consensus that Romanian women are inferior. This was something that was taught to the masses, something that was ingrained into the culture causing a shift in attitude. Due to the teachings the population received people started to view women as subservient, meaning the population had be influenced so strongly that they started to believe that women were these weak, fragile and disposable sub population. That change in attitude created a major change in the way the masses perceived women. Effectively setting off what can be perceived almost like a domino effect. The change in attitude due to the implementation of communist ideals caused a shift in attitude, which had snowballed into to a negative perception of women. Overall causing a major
In class we learned that social contingencies is basically a concept that explains the way we learn and adopt behaviors. It is fact that a lot of what we know is what we have learned from people. That learning occurred in either an informal context, for example interactions with people, friends and family, or it could have been in a formal context for example in teaching institutions like primary and secondary schooling. In class we also learned of the effects of social pressure, and this lecture illuminated this concept through the use of a country and its communist past. In an experiment that was conducted in the 1950’s by Solomon Asch at Swarthmore college. It was during this experiment that it was revealed that social pressure can makindividals say or agree to something that is very clearly incorrect. These two things in combination very clearly explain why the shift in the perception and behaviors of women changed in the way they did. When communist ideals in combination with a very traditional patriarchal society was introduced there were a whole new set of social cues an attitudes that had to be taught to the population. Teachings that men were superior and women were substandard and subservient were lesson that were taught within the walls of educational institutions. It became apparent in