SOCA01H3 Study Guide - Tabula Rasa, Social Software, Toilet Training
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How culture is transmitted to infants and throughout life. Can look at it as social programming: put software into a computer to give it instructions on how to operate. Social software that gives instructions to a human computer. Easier to program computers than it is people. We run into several different programmers (humans) that tell us different things. People tell you to listen to their messages, but these messages vary and conflict with each other. Self-socialization- people learn their culture using their internet. Have to socialize to become humans via studies done on human isolation. Infant comes into world as a tabula rasa(blank slate) Communication is not natural, it must be learned. Brain opens up for language acquisitions at ages 2 to 5. Once you pass the phase when language can be learned, it"s a lot more difficult to learn language. Isolation excludes possibility of learning games and you show no interest in that later in life.
