chp 3 sociology
On average, an adult in the United States watches television for about how many hours a day?
4
In what Piaget stage do children understand conservation?
Concrete operational
What did Harlow find in his monkey studies?
Contact comfort was very important
For Jean Piaget, at which stage of development do individuals first use language and other cultural symbols?
Preoperational stage
According to Piaget, in which stage of human development do individuals experience the world only through sensory contact?
Sensorimotor stage
Which of the following concepts refers to the lifelong social experience by which human beings develop their potential and learn culture?
Socialization
Jean Piaget's focus was on ________
cognition, or how people think and understand.
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?
ego
A distinctive contribution of schooling to the process of socialization is ________
exposing the child to an impersonal, bureaucratic setting.
Family is important to the socialization process because ________
families pass along social identity to children in terms of class, ethnicity, and religion.
Carol Gilligan extended Kohlberg's research, showing that ________
girls and boys typically assess situations as right and wrong using different standards.
In the historical perspective, the importance of the mass media to the socialization process has ________
increased over time.
The special importance of the peer group is the fact that it ________
lets children escape the direct supervision of parents.
The focus of Lawrence Kohlberg's research was ________
moral reasoning.
In the nature versus nurture debate, sociologists claim that ________
nurture is far more important than nature
Which of the following concepts refers to a person's fairly consistent pattern of acting, thinking, and feeling?
personality
Erik H. Erikson's view of socialization states that ________
personality develops over the entire life course in patterned stages.
Mead claimed that the origin of the self is found in ________
social experience
In Freud's model of personality, what represents the presence of culture within the individual?
superego