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

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