SOC 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: George Herbert Mead, Jean Piaget, Sigmund Freud

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Socialization: the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture. Personality: a person"s fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking and feeling. Humans behaviours are shaped from nurturing them, they are not born a certain way. Behaviours and skills are developed depending on how you were raised. Isolating children from socialization causes permanent damage to their development. Id: humans basic drives, which are unconscious and demand immediate satisfaction. Ego: person"s conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with the demands of society. Superego: cultural values and norms internalized by and individual. Believed that human development involves both biological maturation and gaining social experience. Sensorimotor stage: involves knowing the word only through the senses. Pre-operational stage: involves starting to use language and other symbols. Concrete operational stage: allows individuals to understand casual connections. Formal operational stage: involves abstract and critical thought. Applied piaget"s approach to stages of moral development.