SA 150 Chapter 5: Ch. 5

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Ann Travers

Document Summary

Socialization: the lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn patterns of their culture. Personality: a person"s fairly consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting: darwin believed that ppl had a fixed, instinctive nature. Behaviorism theory:specific behaviour patterns aren"t instinctive but learned from society. Jean piaget: (cognitive development) which individuals experience the world only through sensory contact. Sensorimotor stage: the level of human development at o o o. Unable to use symbols which individuals first use language and other symbols. Preoperational stage: the level of human development at. Reality moves beyond senses; imagination gained o o (appreciate fairy tales) o. Cannot comprehend that a situation may be diff. for someone else. (water in the glass experiment) Concrete operational stage: the level of development at which individuals first perceive causal connections in their surroundings: ages 7-11, can attach more than one symbol to an event or object.