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Unit 3
sociology
Question | Answer |
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Nature vs Nurture | Nature: personality similarities between children and parents. Nurture: explains the impact of environment, this is good at explaining different cultures. |
Heredity | the transmission of genetic characteristics from a parent to a child. |
Birth order affects | our personalities are shaped by siblings and the order in which we are born. |
Feral children | children that are isolated in their homes, they have disabilities. |
John Locke "Tabulla Rasa" | each person is a "blank state". During birth we have no personality, we develop our personality through our social experiences. |
Charles Horton Cooley "Looking Glass Self" | children develop an image of themselves based on how others see them. |
George Herbert Meade "Role Taking" | people not only come to see themselves as others see them, they take on or pretend to take the roles of others. |
Four Agents of Socialization | family, school, peer group, and mass media |
The "Blurring" of adolescence | adults act younger and children forced to "grow" up quickly. |
Puberty and the Endocrine system | the brain produce chemicals (hermones) and growth "spurts". |
Complexion issues | studies show nearly all young people experience aene. 40% of adolescence have aene. |
Pre-Frontal Cortex development | our brains don't fully development until our early 20's, this controls our decision making and emotions. |
Undefined status | some adults treat adolescents as an adult or child |