48-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heredity, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
• Course: 48-101
• Professor: Nakhaie

Document Summary

Socialization: the process by which individuals develop personality and learn the way of life of their society. Infants do not know anything at time of birth. Fairly stable patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions that are typical of an individual: cognitive (thoughts, perception etc. , emotional (love, hate, envy, sympathy, anger, pride, behavioural (competence, aptitudes) Conditional response, dog and saliva: operant conditioning (skinner) pigeon, mice, imitation (language) Cognitive development: moral realist (age 4-8, outcome, moral autonomist (age 8+, reason) Only senses, no language, thinking reasoning etc: pre-operational (2-7) Ex. larger object must be heavier: concrete operational (age 7-12) Understanding is still based on concrete objects. Develop understanding of cause and effect: formal operational (onset of adolescence) Key terms: id > inner drives of sexual pleasure, ego > strategies for id satisfaction, super ego > inhibitor, love object, stages of development. Assumptions about self: self is acquired, self is an object to oneself, self is a process, self is external.