48-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jean Piaget, Resocialization, Heredity
18 Dec 2013
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The process by which individuals develop personality and learn the way of life of their society. Fairly stable patterns of thoughts, feelings and actions that are typical of an individual. Emotional (hate, love, envy, sympathy, angry, pride, etc. ) Unique experience (experience unique to one person, and not to others) Re-socialization (army, initiation rite) an alcoholic goes to rehab to re-socialize in the. Conditional response, saliva: operant conditioning (skinner) pigeon, mice. Cognitive development: moral realist (age 4-8, outcome, moral autonomist (age 8+, reason, stages of development: Sensorimotor (age 2) actions are based on their senses; children don"t know language and can"t reason; no conception of themselves) Concrete operational (age 7-12) can"t think in abstract terms nor hypothetic questions; everything has to be concrete; able to take roles of others; able to participate effectively socially. Formal operational (onset of adolescence) can think of theories; develops morality: speed of development varies from cultures to cultures; some might not reach the final stage.
