SOCI 120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cognitive Development, Moral Development, Lawrence Kohlberg
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Socialization: the process by which we learn the ways of society (or of particular groups) Lifelong social experience by which individuals develop human potential and learn the nuances of cultures. Humans need social experience to live because we have no survival instincts. The social experience is the foundation of how we form a personality: a person"s fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling. Abandoned children do not learn to speak, they do not forms bonds. Biology alone does not determine our development. Effects of social isolation on nonhuman primates (deprived animal) the harlow"s experiment : monkeys grew up in isolation each test group was given 2 arti cial model. 1 with a wire nipple to nurse. The other with no nipple but with a soft covering. When something frightening came the monkeys ran to the mother with the soft covering. **infant mother bonding does not come from feeling but with comforting physical bonding*
