What concept refers to the lifelong social experience by which human beings develop their potential and learn culture?
socialization
What concept refers to a person's fairly consistent pattern of acting, thinking, and feeling?
personality
Our basic drives or needs as humans are reflected in Freud's concept of the
id
In Freud's model of personality, which element of the personality represents a person's efforts to balance the demands of society and innate pleasure-seeking drives?
ego
According to Piaget, in what stage of human development do individuals experience the world only through sensory contact?
sensorimotor stage
For Jean Piaget, at which stage of development do individuals first use language and other cultural symbols?
preoperational stage
The focus of Lawrence Kohlberg's research was
moral reasoning
Carol Gilligan extended Kohlberg's research, showing that
girls and boys typically assess situations as right and wrong using different standards
Mead placed the origin of the self on which of the following
social experience
According to Mead, children learn to take the role of the other as they model themselves on important people in their lives, such as parents. Mead referred to these people as
significant others
In Mead's model, which sequence correctly orders stages of the developing self?
imitation, play, game, generalized other
When Cooley used the concept of the "looking-glass self," he claimed that
people see themselves as they think others see them
Erik H. Erikson's view of socialization states that
personality develops over 8 stages throughout the course of one's life
Family is important to the socialization process because
families pass along social identity to children in terms of class, ethnicity, and religion