SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Feral Child, Social Learning Theory

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Jeff Racine

Document Summary

Lecture 3: socialization the ways in which individuals learn and recreate skills, knowledge, values, motives, and roles appropriate to their position in a group or society the means by which the social and cultural continuity are attained. When a child learns the attitudes, values, and actions appropriate to individuals as members of a particular culture. It is mainly in uenced by the immediate family and friends: secondary. The process of learning what is the appropriate behaviour as a member of a smaller group within the larger society. Basically, it is the behavioural patterns reinforced by socializing agents of society. It is where children and adults learn how to act in a way that is appropriate for the situations they are in: anticipatory. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and re exes, accepting new ones as part of a transition in one"s life. Developmental theory: timing and sequencing of physical/psychological development in early childhood.