SOCPSY 1Z03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Gestalt Psychology, Social Learning Theory, Mendelian Inheritance

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Jeff Racine

Document Summary

Socialization is a term used to refer to the lifelong process of inheriting and disseminating norms, customs, and ideologies, providing an individual with the skills and habits necessary for participating within his or her own society. Socialization is the means by which social and cultural continuity are attained. One of the striking features of social life is there is great continuity from one generation. Continuity pertains to psychology and gestalt theory, refers to vision and is the to the next - continuity both in physical characteristics and behaviour tendency to create continuous patterns and perceive connected objects as uninterrupted. The other four principles are known as proximity, similarity, closure, and. Genetic inheritance is one source of continuity, but a major contributor to intergenerational similarity is socialization. The ways in which individuals learn and recreate skills, knowledge, values, motives and roles to appropriate their positions in group or society.