UCSP - Chapter 4

• Socialization is the cultural process of learning participate in group life. Without it, we would not develop many of the characteristics we associate with being human.
• Personality - is the sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual. It determines how we adjust to our environment and how we react in a specific situations.
• Factors in Personality Development:

  • Heredity
  • Birth Order
  • Parental Characteristics
  • Cultural Environment
• Heredity - Hereditary characteristics also include certain aptitudes.
• An aptitude is a capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire specific body of knowledge.
• Birth Order - Children with siblings have a different view of the world than do children who have no brothers or sisters.
• Parental Characteristics - Personality development in children is also influenced by this characteristics taught to their children.
• Cultural Environment - This has a strong influence on personality development. Generally, the this environment determines the basic types of personality traits that are typical to the members of society.
• Culture offers an explanation of human behavior. The people of different societies have different beliefs and customs, and these influences their behavior.
• Attachment behavior - in infancy predicts later his or her social development. Infants become attached to their parents and caregivers not simply because they satisfy or gratify biological needs but, more significantly, because they are comfortable, familiar, and responsive.
• Feral children as those mental, physical, and social growth have been cut off because of being reard in total or nearly total isolation from other human.