Question 1

Jean Piaget's focus was on

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A)  how children develop their motor skills.
B)  how children are stimulated by their environment.
C)  the role of heredity in shaping human behavior.
D)  cognition,or how people think and understand.E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 2

Why is "growing up" more difficult to define than it used to be? What are the achievements that lead people to say that someone has become an adult? Why is adolescence longer than it was several generations ago? What difference does social class position make in the time frame for "growing up"?

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Question 3

The Harlow experiments to discover the effects of social isolation on rhesus monkeys showed that

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A)  monkeys isolated for six months were highly fearful when they were returned to their group.
B)  isolated monkeys able to cling to terry cloth,artificial mothers developed normally.
C)  even several days of social isolation permanently damaged infant monkeys.
D)  All of these responses are correct.E) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 4

Members of a peer group share common interests,social position,and a similar age.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

In the historical perspective,the importance of the mass media to the socialization process has

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A)  increased over time.
B)  been about the same over the last century.
C)  decreased over time.
D)  never been very important.E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 6

Explain how a family's social class position shapes the process of socialization.

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A family's social class position can sig...

Question 7

What is the poverty rate among elderly people in the United States? How has it changed in recent decades?

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As of my knowledge cutoff in early 2023,...

Question 8

Mead used the concept "generalized other" to refer to

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A)  individuals who play a role in the child's life during a relatively short period.
B)  a person who provides complete care for a child.
C)  any "significant other."
D)  widespread cultural norms and values used in evaluating ourselves.E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 9

Which of the following is a lesson learned from the hidden curriculum?

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A)  cooperation
B)  math
C)  reading
D)  biologyE) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

Question 10

Industrial societies typically define people in old age as

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A)  the most wise.
B)  the most knowledgeable about current fashion and trends.
C)  more out of touch and less socially important than younger adults.
D)  having the highest social standing.E) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 11

Carol Gilligan set out to compare the moral development of girls and boys.Her research showed that

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A)  girls and boys typically assess situations as right and wrong using different standards.
B)  girls are more interested in right and wrong than boys are.
C)  boys show more care and empathy in judging a moral situation than girls do.
D)  the ability to assess situations as right and wrong typically develops only as young people enter the teenage years.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 12

The period of life called "middle adulthood" typically involves

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A)  life circumstances becoming more or less set.
B)  an increased awareness of health issues.
C)  children growing up and requiring less attention.
D)  All of these responses are correct.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 13

Critics of Erikson's theory of personality development point out that

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A)  not everyone confronts the stages in the exact order given by Erikson.
B)  failing to meet the challenge of one stage of development may not mean failing at later challenges.
C)  this process may unfold differently in other cultures or at other times in history.
D)  All of these responses are correct.E) All of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 14

Parents of all social classes have many of the same expectations of their children.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

What concept refers to a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting,thinking,and feeling?

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A)  socialization
B)  behavior
C)  human nature
D)  personalityE) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 16

George Herbert Mead used the concept "the looking-glass self" to refer to significant people in our lives.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

In Freud's model of personality,what represents the presence of culture within the individual?

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A)  id
B)  ego
C)  superego
D)  thanatosE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 18

Our basic drives or needs as humans are reflected in Freud's concept of the

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A)  superego.
B)  ego.
C)  id.
D)  me.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 19

What we know about the later lives of socially isolated children supports the findings of the Harlow's research.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

U.S.school children spend about as much time in front of a television as they do at school or interacting with their parents.

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A) True 
 B)False

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