After reading the article answer the following question

After reading the article answer the following question in your notebook: What is your opinion of this article? Explain How was your personality determined? If you know your blood type, examine the chart, is this chart accurate? If you do not know your blood type use the chart to determine what blood type best describes you. Examining the chart, determine which blood type best describes Mr. Wheeler, explain why you selected that type.

In your rows, answer the following: What determines your likes, dislikes and personality? How are we shaped both by our heredity and our life experiences? Which was more influential in determining your personality, heredity or experiences? Explain

A Life Long Debate: Nature vs Nurture

Nature Suggests your personality has been pre determined by your heredity, it has been passed on to you from your parents through their genes.

Nurture Suggests people behave the way they do because they are socialized by the things other people teach them, the things they observe around them, and because of the different situations they are put in. You are a product of you surroundings

Are Twins separated at birth going to have similar personalities? Twins interview

How would you act if you were raised by a dog? Wild Child: Stories of Feral Children

How does Birth Order effect personality? Birth Order

Total Institutions and Resocialization To break from past experiences and learn new. To separate from society and every aspect of your life come under control from others ◦ Military ◦ Boarding school ◦ Prison

What are agents of Socialization? Specific groups, individuals, or institutions where you are socialized. What are some of your agents of socialization?

Family Most important Teaches basic values Standard of living Right from wrong “you place in society”

Peer Group composed of individuals roughly equal age and similar characteristics. Peer pressure You become what your friends are Very influential beginning at adolescence

Media MOST CONTROVERSIAL T. V. , magazines, internet, social media, video games.

School Between ages 5 -18 30 weeks a year. Teaching and extracurricular activities.