Personality Development
The Social Self
Agents of Socialization
Social Self II
Surprise!
100
wild or untamed children
What are feral children
100
The interactive process through which people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of a society
What is socialization
100
a break with past experiences and the learning of new values and norms.
What is resocialization
100
The interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others.
What is the looking-glass self
100
Supporters of this view would say that our personality is determined by our heredity or biological makeup.
What is nature
200
the sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual.
What is personality
200
parents, siblings, relatives, and others who have a direct influence on our socialization.
What are significant others
200
a primary group composed of individuals of roughly equal age and similar social characteristics.
What is a peer group
200
your conscious awareness of possessing a distinct identity that separates you and your environment from other members of society.
What is "self"
200
the transmission of genetic characteristic from parents to children
What is heredity
300
an unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern.
What is instinct
300
This forms the basis of the socialization process by allowing us to anticipate what others expect of us.
What is role-taking
300
the most important agent of socialization
What is the family
300
The internalized attitudes, expectations, and viewpoints of society.
What is the generalized other
300
This theorist developed the theory of the "looking-glass self"
Who is Charles Cooley
400
a capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge.
What is aptitude
400
According to Mead, the_________ is the unsocialized, spontaneous, self-interested component of personality and self-identity.
What is the "I."
400
instruments of communication that reach large audiences with no personal contact between those sending the information and those receiving it.
What is mass media
400
John Locke, an English philosopher in the 1600's, insisted that each newly born human being is a ________.
What is tabula rasa, or blank slate.
400
a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time and are subject to tight control.
What is total institution
500
The principal factors that social scientists see influencing personality and behavior.
What are heredity, birth order, parental characteristics, and cultural environment
500
According to Mead, during which stage do children begin to act out the roles of specific people?
What is the second stage
500
The four agents of socialization in the United States.
What is the family, peer group, school, and mass media
500
According to Mead, the ______ is the part of ourselves that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society.
What is the "me"
500
In this agent of socialization, there is an attempt to transmit cultural values, such as patriotism, responsibility, and good citizenship.
What is the school
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