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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Personality | the sum total of behavior, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are charecteristics of an individual. |
| heredity | the transmission of genetic charecteristics from parents to children. |
| instinct | an unchanging biologically inherited behavior pattern. |
| sociobiology | the systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior. |
| aptitude | is a capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge. |
| feral children | wild or untamed children. |
| John B. watson | suggested that what applies to dogs can also be applied to humans. claimed he could take a dozen healthy infants and train them to be whatever he wanted. Doctor, Lawyer, Etc.. |
| the lk. | of northern Uganda provide a powerful example of the effects of cultural environment on personality development. Ik villagers were like one large family, after WW2 They turned on each other out of frustration and now children are thrown out at age 3. |
| Kingsley Davis | Kingsleys studies of anna and isabelle provide evidence of the devastating effect of isolation during childhood. |
| Rene Spitz | studied the effects of institutionalization on a group of infants living in an orphanage. |
| Socialization | the interactive process through which people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns. |
| self | your conscious awareness of possessing a distinct identity that seperates you and your environment from other members of society. |
| looking-glass self | refers to the interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others. |
| role-taking | forms the basis of the socialization process by allowing us to anticipate what others expect of us. |
| significant others | parents, siblings, relatives and others who have a direct influence on our socialization. |
| generalized other | internalized attitudes, expectations, and viewpoints of society. |
| I | unsocialized spontaneous, self-interested component of personality and self identity. |
| Me | is the part of ourself that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society. |
| John Locke | believe that human beings could be molded into any type of charecter. |
| Charles Horton Cooley | was one of the founders of the interactionist perspective in sociology. |
| George Herbert Mead | another founder to the interactionist perspective developed ideas related to Cooleys theories. |
| Agents Of socialization | to describe the specific individuals, groups, and institutions that enable socialization to take place. |
| peer group | a primary group composed of individuals of roughly equal age and similar social charecteristics. |
| mass media | are instruments of communication that reach large audiences with no personal contact between those sending the information and those recieving it. |
| total institution | a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time and are subject to control. |
| resocialization | involves a break with the past experiences and the learning of new values and norms. |