SOC 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Behaviorism, Eye Contact, Hidden Curriculum

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

Document Summary

Social experience: the key to our humanity: 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. Sigmund freud"s elements of personality: basic human needs: eros and thanatos as opposing forces, freud"s model of personality. Id and superego are in constant states of conflict, with the ego balancing the two. Jean piaget"s theory of cognitive development: 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. Lawrence kohlberg"s theory of moral development: moral reasoning: the ways in which individuals judge situations as right or wrong, three stages in moral development: Preconventional: young children experience the world as pain or pleasure. Conventional: teens lose selfishness as they learn to define right and wrong in terms of what pleases parents and conforms to cultural norms.