Socialization

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Socialization

• The Importance of Socialization

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What is socialization?

• Write down meaning examples
• Compare with neighbor
• The process by which we learn the ways of society
  or of a group within society
• Learning attitudes, values, behaviors, knowledge
  of a society

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Research on socialization deprivation

• Harlows monkey study
• Davis case histories
• Curtisss case study
• Skeels Dye experiment
• Spitzs comparison

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Harlows monkey study1959-67

• Experiment with surrogate mothers
• Wire mother with food
• Terry cloth mother no food
• Terry cloth more time
• Experiment with time in deprivation
• Short could overcome
• Long (6 mos) not adjust
• Withdrawn, distressed, hostile as adults
• As mothers reject, ignore, abuse
• Can we generalize to humans?

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Davis case histories 1947

• Anna
• Illegitimate 2nd
• Grandfather strict morals
• Stayed in attic
• Little attention, except milk
• Discovered at 5
• Could not walk, talk, no intelligence
• Learned to walk, feed herself, recognize people,
  speech of 1 year old
• Died at 10

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Davis case histories 1947

• Isabelle
• Also illegitimate
• Mother deaf-mute
• Stayed in dark room
• Discovered at 6 ½
• Had rickets not talk, but used sounds
  gestures feared men
• Rehab program
• Slow start
• Mastered skill of normal 6 year old in 2 years
• By 8 ½ on par

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Curtisss case study 1977

• Genie
• 13 year old isolated in room
• Strapped to potty chair
• Silent no clothing could not chew
• Four years of training
• Not successful
• Spoke in short phrases
• Could not read
• Begun to control feelings behavior

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Skeels Dye 1939

• Experimental group
• Institution for mentally retarded
• Retarded infants cared for by retarded women
• Control group
• Orphanage
• 2.5 years later tested IQ
• Exp group gained
• Control group lost
• 21 years later
• Exp group 12th grade ed
• Control group lt 3rd grade ed

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Spitzs comparison 1945

• Comparison of prison nursery orphanage
• Age 2
• Orphanage some retarded all psychologically
  socially underdeveloped
• Prison nursery not underdeveloped
• Age 4
• Orphanage 1/3 died
• Prison no deaths even though not as clean
• Difference emotional, physical, mental
  stimulation
• Prison - Mothers, toys, other children
• Orphanage nurse/infant ratio 71 no toys
  isolated

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Conclusion

• Society makes us human
• Through socialization process