SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: George Herbert Mead, Preadolescence, Personality Development

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Socialization: the lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture. Personality: a person"s fairly consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting. The biological sciences: the role of nature; initially, europeans linked cultural differences to biology. The social sciences: the role of nurture; behaviourism holds that behaviour is not instinctive but learned. Isolation (being cut off from the social world) can cause permanent developmental damage. Six researchers have made lasting contributions to our understanding of human development: Jean piaget know him for the exam because he"s deanna"s fav. Basic human needs: eros and thanatos as opposing forces. Id and super ego are in constant states of conflict, with the ego balancing the two. Cognition: how people think and understand stages of development. Preoperational stage: use of language and other symbols. Concrete operational stage: perception of causal connections in surroundings; during puberty. Formal operational stage: abstract, critical thinking; happens when the prefrontal cortex develops.