Personality, Self and Identity
The characteristic behaviours, perceptions and emotional patterns that make someone unique.
What is personality?
The process by which people learn society's norms, values and expected behaviours.
What is socialisation?
This influence teaches values, traditions, language and moral codes.
What is the family?
The debate over whether genetics or environment has the greater influence on development.
What is the nature vs nurture debate?
This theorist developed four stages of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The way an individual presents themselves to the world and sees themselves.
What is self-concept?
The first and often most important agent of socialisation.
What is the family?
Shared customs, language, traditions and beliefs are part of this influence.
What are ethnicity and culture?
Genetics, DNA and inherited characteristics refer to this side of the debate.
What is nature?
This Piaget stage occurs from birth to age two.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
The recognition of oneself as a separate individual with unique traits and feelings.
What is self-awareness?
Socialisation continues throughout this.
What is the life course?
People of a similar age and social status who influence behaviour and identity.
Who are peers?
Family, peers, education and environment refer to this side of the debate.
What is nurture?
This Piaget concept describes understanding that objects still exist when unseen.
What is object permanence?
George Mead divided the self into these two components.
What are the "I" and the "Me"?
Respecting authority, following laws and understanding right from wrong are examples of learning these through socialisation.
What are norms and values?
This institution teaches discipline, values and skills needed for adult life.
What is school?
Short sections of DNA that carry information for specific characteristics.
What are genes?
This theorist developed the Eight Stages of Psychosocial Development.
Who is Erik Erikson?
The categories people use to describe themselves and distinguish themselves from others.
What is identity?
These are the expected behaviours attached to a person's position in society.
What are social roles?
Television, newspapers, radio and social media belong to this major influence.
What is the media?
The interaction between biological inheritance and environmental influences.
What is the nature-nurture interaction?
The Erikson stage associated with adolescence.
What is identity vs role confusion?