The Social Self
Personality Development
Other Stuff
Agents of Socialization
Odds & Ends
100
The interactive process through which people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of a society
What is socialization?
100
The sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual
What is personality?
100
Conducted research on rhesus monkeys in the 1950's
Who is Harry Harlow?
100
Involves a break with past experiences and the learning of new values and norms
What is resocialization?
100
The argument over whether heredity or the social environment determines personality
What is nature versus nurture?
200
He developed the concepts of the "I" and "me" to explain the development of a sense of self.
Who is George Herbert Mead?
200
A capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge
What is an aptitude?
200
A people from northern Uganda who provide a powerful example of the effects of cultural environment on personality development
Who are the Ik?
200
The specific individuals, groups, and institutions that enable socialization to take place
What are agents of socialization?
200
The 4 principle factors that influence personality and behavior
What are heredity, birth order, parental characteristics, and the cultural environment?
300
Specific people, such as parents, brothers, sisters, relatives, and friends, who have a direct influence on our socialization
What are significant others?
300
Competitiveness, assertiveness, and individualism
What are common personality traits found in American culture?
300
Siblings who are more likely to be achievement-oriented and responsible
What are firstborn children?
300
primary group composed of individuals of roughly equal age and similar social experiences
What is a peer group?
300
George Herbert Mead's term for the internalized attitudes, expectations, and viewpoints of society
What is the generalized other?
400
The interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves abased on how we imagine we appear to others
What is the looking-glass self?
400
He studied the effects of institutionalization on a group of infants in an orphanage in 1945.
Who is Rene Spitz?
400
The systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior
What is sociobiology?
400
A setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a ser period of time and are subject to tight control
What is a total institution?
400
Mead's 3-step process by which children learn role-taking
What is imitation, play, and games?
500
He believed that each newly born human being is a "tabula rasa".
Who is John Locke? (also 200 years later, John Watson)
500
Anna, Isabelle, and Genie are referred to as
What are feral children? (untamed)
500
His research on dogs supported John Watson's belief that he could train healthy infants to become whatever he wanted.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
500
The four primary agents of socialization
What are the family, the peer group, the school, and the mass media?
500
He developed the looking-glass self theory of socialization.
Who is Charles Horton Cooley?
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