EDPE 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Subculture, Peer Pressure, Erik Erikson

• School: McGill University
• Department: Educational & Counselling Psych
• Course: EDPE 300
• Professor: Scott Conrod

Document Summary

Factors that influence personal, social and moral development: school is a place where students grow personally, socially and morally as well as academically. Temperamental differences: children seem to have certain personalities almost from birth, temperament: a genetic predisposition to respond in particular ways to one"s physical and social environments. For most children this is the ideal parenting style: children from very controlling homes tend to be unhappy, anxious and lacking in social skills. Children from very permissive homes tend to be selfish, unmotivated, impulsive and disobedient. Effects of culture: to some degree, different cultural groups encourage different behaviors (i. e. china vs, socialization: the process of moulding a child"s behavior to fit the norms and roles of. Zambia) the child"s society: norms: as related to socialization, society"s rules for acceptable and unacceptable behavior. This often occurs the first time a child enters school. Peer influences: peers influence each other"s development by serving examples as to how one should behave, etc.