Soc 101 - Introduction to Sociology » Spring 2022 » Chapter 5

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Question #1
What concept refers to the lifelong social experience by which human beings develop their potential and learn culture?
A.   personality
B.   human nature
C.   socialization
D.   behaviorism
Question #2
What concept refers to a person’s fairly consistent pattern of acting, thinking, and feeling?
A.   personality
B.   behavior
C.   socialization
D.   human nature
Question #3
Our basic drives or needs as humans are reflected in Freud’s concept of the _________.
A.   superego
B.   id
C.   ego
D.   generalized other
Question #4
In Freud’s model of personality, which element of the personality represents a person’s efforts to balance the demands of society and innate pleasure-seeking drives?
A.   ego
B.   generalized other
C.   superego
D.   id
Question #5
According to Piaget, in what stage of human development do individuals experience the world only through sensory contact?
A.   sensorimotor stage
B.   preoperational stage
C.   concrete operational stage
D.   formal operational stage
Question #6
For Jean Piaget, at which stage of development do individuals first use language and other cultural symbols?
A.   sensorimotor stage
B.   formal operational stage
C.   concrete operational stage
D.   preoperational stage
Question #7
The focus of Lawrence Kohlberg’s research was ________.
A.   psychoanalysis.
B.   the importance of gender in socialization.
C.   moral reasoning.
D.   cognition
Question #8
Carol Gilligan extended Kohlberg’s research, showing that
A.   girls are more interested in right and wrong than boys are.
B.   the ability to assess situations as right and wrong typically develops only as young people enter the teenage years.
C.   girls and boys typically assess situations as right and wrong using different standards.
D.   boys are more interested in right and wrong than girls are.
Question #9
Mead placed the origin of the self on which of following:
A.   genetics
B.   biological drives.
C.   the functioning of the brain.
D.   social experience.
Question #10
According to Mead, children learn to take the role of the other as they model themselves on important people in their lives, such as parents. Mead referred to these people as ________.
A.   role models.
B.   the generalized other.
C.   significant others.
D.   looking-glass models.

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