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| the lifelong process of social interaction throug hwhich individuals acquire a self-identity and the physical, mental, and social skills needed for survival in society |
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| the systematic study of how biology affects social behavior |
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| Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development |
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-1. Sensorimotor Stage (birth-2)
2. Preoperational Stage (2-7)
3. Concrete Operational Stage (7-11)
4. Formal Operational Stage (12-adolescence) |
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children understand the world only through sensory contact and immediate action because they cannot engage in symbolic thought or use language
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| children begin to use words as mental symbols and to develop the ability to use mental images |
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| Concrete Operational stage |
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| children think in terms of tangible objects and actual events: they also can draw conclusions about the likely physical consequences of an action without always having to try it out |
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| adolescents are able to engage in highly abstract thought and understand places, things and events they have never seen. Beyond this point, changes in thinking are a matter of changes in degree rather than in the nature of their thinking |
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| Kolberg and stages of moral development |
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1. Preconventional Level (7-10)
2. Conventional Level (10-adulthood)
3. Postconventional Level (few adults reach this stage) |
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| children's perceptions are based on punishment and obedience |
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| people are most concerned with how they are perceived by their peers and with how one conforms to rules |
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| people view morality in terms of individual rights. at final stage of moral development is judged by principles based on human rights that transcend gov. and laws. |
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| Gillian's view on Gender and Moral Development |
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1. criticized majorly by Carol Gilligan who noted that his model was based solely on male responses
2. believed that men become more concerned with law and order but that women tend to analyze social relationships and the social consequences of behavior
3. people make moral decisions according to both abstract principles of justice and principles of compassion and care. |
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without social contact, we cannot form a self concept-the totality of our beliefs and feelings about ourselves
1. imagine how our personality and appearance will look to others
2.we imagine how other people judge the appearance and personality that we think we present
3. develop a self concept
through mutual interrelationships between individual and society, society shapes people and people shape society |
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| linked the idea of self concept to role taking-process by which a person mentally assumes the role of another person in order to understand the world from that person's point of view |
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mead2.
significant others |
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| those persons whose care, affection, and approval are especially desired and who are most important in the development of the self: these indviduals are extremely important in the socialization process. |
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I: subjective elemnt of hte slef that represents the spontaneous and unique traits of each person
me: objective element of hte self, which is compose of hte internalized attitudes and demands of other members of society and the indivdiual's awareness of those demands |
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