Deck 5: A: Socialization

Question 1

The "ego" in Freud's model of personality is the same as "conscience."

Answer 1

False

Question 2

According to Carol Gilligan,the self-esteem of girls steadily increases through the teenage years.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Mass media is the means for delivering impersonal communication to a vast audience.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Mead's concepts of the "I" and the "me" are close parallels of Freud's concepts of the id and the superego.

Question 5

Of all social institutions,the family has the greatest impact on socialization.

Question 6

Cooley's term for self-image based on how we think others see us is "mirrored image".

Question 7

Erik H.Erikson emphasized that almost all important socialization takes place in childhood.

Question 8

The tragic case of Anna shows how,without adequate nutrition,a human being cannot develop a healthy personality.

Question 9

The "id" in Freud's work represents the human being's basic needs,which are unconscious and demand immediate satisfaction.

Question 10

Socialization within the family is always intentional.

Question 11

The Harlow studies found that six months of social isolation was sufficient to permanently damage infant rhesus monkeys.

Question 12

According to Piaget,people think abstractly and critically in the concrete operational stage.

Question 13

Even years of social isolation in infancy may not cause permanent and irreversible developmental damage.

Question 14

Psychologist John B.Watson claimed that specific patterns of behavior are not instinctive,but learned.

Question 15

According to Jean Piaget,language and other symbols are first used in the preoperational stage.

Question 16

In Freud's model of personality,the superego manages the opposing forces of the id and the ego.

Question 17

While many researchers have studied outward behavior,George Herbert Mead focused on symbolic meaning-specifically the meaning people attach to behavior.

Question 18

What we know of the later lives of the socially isolated children squares with the finding of the Harlows in their research.

Question 19

Lawrence Kohlberg claims that individuals develop the capacity for moral reasoning in stages as they grow older.

Question 20

Mead's theory of the self is completely social;he recognized no role for biology in personality development.

Question 21

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

Question 22

Industrialization brings with it a rise in the social standing of old people.

Question 23

Schools provide children with early experience of bureaucracy.

Question 24

Every stage of life is socially constructed in ways that vary from society to society.

Question 25

Childhood and other stages of the life course are defined in much the same way in all societies.

Question 26

A college is a good example of a total institution.

Question 27

Anti-elderly bias in Canada will probably decrease as the share of older people rises.

Question 28

Total institutions operate with the goal of resocializing inmates.

Question 29

During the last century,the mass media have had a declining influence on people in the United States.

Question 30

A cohort is a category of people with something important in common,usually their age.

Question 31

As the proportion of women and men in old age increases,we can expect Canadian culture to become more comfortable with the reality of death.

Question 32

During adolescence,the family's influence on children virtually stops.

Question 33

Anticipatory socialization refers to trying to avoid unpleasant social experiences.