SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Toilet Training, Menopause

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Glavin

Document Summary

The ways in which individuals learn and recreate skills, knowledge, values, motives and roles appropriate to their positions in a group or society (delamater et al) The process by which we are taught" society"s values, norms, and values. Someone who is doing the teaching or providing information. Source of social behaviours: development of social behaviours physical and neurological. As the child gets older, they figure out the ques to when to go to the bathroom. Environmental influences are not needed for toilet training. This perspective lasts through many changes in your lives. Essential for child influences to have these people around the child. Process of learning the shared meanings of those in the child"s respective groups. Allows for more flexibility upon a child. The child learn what has been passed down by their group or modify it. Interaction itself is very important in this structure. Base line for carrying on, on what you bring into society.