11-07-2019, 11:28 AM
The home environment — which is where one’s social learning begins — is vital to a person’s development and remains important throughout one’s life. During childhood, a person learns social skills from his or her parents and family members. In fact, it’s not just social behavior, but behavior in general. This is referred to as modeling.6 This phenomenon is very well documented and is why, for example, you might see a child puffing on a pen like it’s a cigarette or adopting many of the same figures of speech as his or her parents. Even adolescents and teenagers will unknowingly adopt behaviors they’re seeing from their parents, often without even realizing that they’re exhibiting a behavior they’ve picked up from their parents.