Psychology Test 1 Flashcards

Social Environment

• Encompasses the complete human landscape, involving interactions with others.

Feral Children

• Refers to children believed to have been raised by animals, isolated from human contact in natural environments.

Socialization

• The process through which individuals acquire knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and behaviors deemed suitable for their group.

Freud's Concepts

• Id: Represents the innate, basic drives within individuals.
• Ego: Functions as a mediator between the id's impulses and societal demands.
• Super Ego: Serves as the conscience, integrating the internalized norms and values from social groups.

Culture Within Us

• Represents shared and learned belief systems and behavioral patterns.

Agents of Socialization

• Entities that influence individuals' self-perception, attitudes, behaviors, and life orientations.

Hidden Curriculum

• Involves implicit values conveyed within the educational system that aren't explicitly taught.

Corridor Curriculum

• Refers to informal learning/exchange of knowledge among students outside of formal classroom settings.

Anticipatory Socialization

• The preparatory learning process individuals undergo for future roles or statuses.

Degradation Ceremony

• A ritual designed to strip away an individual's self-identity, as coined by Harold Garfunkel, replacing it with a new identity.

Adultolescence

• Describes a phase succeeding high school where young adults have yet to assume typical adult responsibilities, synonymous with transitional adulthood.

Resocialization

• The process of adopting new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors after significant life changes.

Life Course

• Represents the various stages individuals traverse from birth to death.

Research Model Steps

• Involves selecting a topic, defining problems, reviewing literature, formulating a hypothesis, choosing research methods, data collection, result analysis, and sharing findings.

Forgotten Sociologists

• A list of notable, yet often overlooked sociologists: Beatrice Potter Webb, Marion Talbot, Alice Paul, Frances Perkins, Anna Julia Cooper, Grace Abbott, Emily Greene Balch, Florence Kelley, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ida B. Wells-Barnett.

US Values

• Core American values include: Achievement & success, individualism, hard work, efficiency, material comfort, freedom, democracy, equality, group superiority, education, religiosity, romantic love.

Global Emotions

• Universal emotions recognized across cultures: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise.

Function of Language

• Facilitates human experiences, shared history, collective future, mutual perspectives, and goal-oriented behavior.