Personality/ heredity
How an individual interacts with other people in his or her social environment and how an individual adjusts to his or her environment and reacts in specific situations is based on
personality
Which concept gained acceptance through the work of Ivan Pavlov's training of dogs to salivate at the presentation of food and sound of a bell?
Nurture
A natural talent that you may inherit from you parents is called
aptitude
The theory that suggests that each of us is born without a personality and we acquire our personality as a result of social experiences is
tabula rasa
Social interaction is like a drama being performed on a stage, according to which idea?
dramaturgy
Personality continues to _______________ throughout an individual’s lifetime.
develop
Sociologist who argue that behavioral traits are rooted in genetic makeup are called
sociobiologist
Cooley suggested that the people who have the most influence on the socialization of a child are
parents
The theory that refers to the interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others is known as
looking glass-self
Mead’s role-taking theory describes __________________ as internalized attitudes, societal expectations, and viewpoints of society.
generalized other
Personality develops at ______________ rates from individual to individual.
varying
The four (4) principal factors that social scientist suggest influence personality are
1. heredity, 2. birth order, 3. parents, 4. culture
Case studies of feral children suggest that ______________ has a tremendous impact of shaping a person’s personality
culture
Playing dress up and taking part in organized sports are important steps of which theory of socialization?
role-taking
The _________ is the unsocialized, spontaneous, self-interested component of personality and self-identity.
I
The transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children is best described as
heredity
The case study of which two people revealed that sometimes it is possible to reverse the effects of a child raised in isolation and deprivation?
(1) Genie, (2) Oxana
Children who are wild or untamed, have few human characteristics and acquire no reasoning ability, manners, or no ability to control their bodily functions are know as.
feral children
Family, peer groups, schools, and mass media are all considered _______________________ in the US
agents of socialization
A setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a specific period of time and are subject to tight control
total institution
An unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern
instinct
Which case study provides evidence that gender development is influenced by both nature and nurture?
David Reimer
In the US competitiveness, assertiveness, and individualism are all considered ___________________ traits
personality
What term describes a break with past experiences and the learning of new values and norms?
resocialization
According to Jonathan Haidt et al., since 2009 internet mass media hasbegun to have a negative impact on which demographic?
(early and late) adolescents girls