PSY 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Communication Theory, Social Cognition, Psychometrics
8 Mar 2016
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Socialization: the process through which the human infant becomes a part of the society. Child is actively engaged in his/her own socialization. Designed to accomplish long range goal of becoming a comptetent member of society. Skills for future: cut, weave, make friends, charity. How parents teach depends on teaching through demonstration, imitation and motor vs. verbal. Collaborate, lead and follow, cooperate & disagree. Mayan children taught highly directive and detail oriented basket. Teaching and learning changes with society patterns by mothers in 1970s. Mayan children taught less constrained and repetitive patterns and were able to be more creative in 1990s. Skills transmitted by mothers allowed more independence. Shift from subsistence economy to cash economy based upon tourism. School learning - piagetian theory and psychometrics take an acaedemic stance. Going to school may not impact theory of mind. Vygotsky posits all learning to be contextual and dependent on the goal directed action of socialization.
