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Chapter 4 Practice Quiz
Socialization
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In her research on the relationship between body image and self-esteem, Carol Gilligan noted how female self-esteem declines during which age?
Early childhood
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The teenage years
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Their twenties
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Their thirties
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Their fifties
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Traditionally, school age boys fare better than girls in which subject?
Math and sciences
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Reading and writing
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Social studies
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Career development
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Language arts
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What term is defined by the concept that the greater part of who we are is determined by our genes?
Socialization
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Biological determinism
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Cultural determinism
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Social determinism
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Physical determinism
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Which theory states that if you do something and it is rewarded, the likelihood of you doing it again is reinforced?
The law of energy
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The law of physics
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The law of society
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The law of socialization
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The law of effect
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What does Freud name the pleasure-seeking drive?
Eros
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Thanatos
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Superego
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Ego
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Super-id
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Each social class develops a wide range of socially acquired characteristics for manners and good taste. What name did Pierre Bourdieu give for this behaviour?
Reproduction
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Programming
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Habitus
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Desensitization
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Acquisition
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When was the XYY chromosome pattern hastily declared as the criminal gene?
1952
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1982
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1992
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1962
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1942
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What term did George Herbert Mead use to refer to key individuals—such as parents and older siblings—whom children imitate and model themselves after?
Generalized others
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Significant others
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Socialized others
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Institutions of socialization
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Secondary socializers
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Which of the following has caused some people to question the value of organized sports as a socializing agent for children?
excellence
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competition
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relaxation
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violence
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teamwork
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Which term did Pierre Bourdieu use to refer to the practice of classes, particularly upper or dominant class, preserving status among classes?
Reproduction
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Programming
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Habitus
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Desensitization
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Snobbery
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Hitchcock and Minturn's research on Rajput children in Northern India claimed to show a strong link between culture and personality.
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Peer groups are only negative sources of socialization.
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Organized sports have never been a common way of socializing Canadian children.
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Aristotle believed that violence depicted in art could produce a feeling of relief from hostile or violent emotions by those who viewed it.
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The notion of hurried child syndrome does not argue that kids feel adult-like levels of stress and guilt.
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Carol Gilligan's research found that harsher standards of body type for women did not affect their self-esteem.
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Toys like Bratz dolls are harmless fun, they do not cause self-objectification.
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Recent research has confirmed the link between cold, distant mothers and Autism spectrum disorder.
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Children do not absorb their parents' belief about their own abilities; hence those beliefs do not have an impact on their school success.
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