SHS 222 midterm study guide

About how many people were estimated to be in attendance at the DPN protests

1,500

Professional Deaf musicians are passionate about:

Creating a bridge between music and Deaf people

Presentations of Deaf art include all of the following EXCEPT:

Deaf use of cochlear implants

Which approach to language analysis is considered to be investigative of differences due to regional variations, colloquial use of terms, educational background, ethnicity or age?

Descriptive

Often the ________ forms of signs that come about will stay a part of ASL

Different

Gallaudet hiring a hearing-impaired president would make a great statement to people who are handicapped throughout the United States, that:

Disability will in no way disable them from attaining their goals and that our democracy is rich enough to afford the diversity

As is true for any _________ group, art is an important expression of Deaf culture

Disenfranchised

The informality and friendliness of American reflects which cultural value?

Equality

Which past President of the National Association of the Deaf was an outspoken critic of A.G. Bell?

George Veditz

Which of the following statements BEST represents the American value of Achievement, Action, Work and Materialism?

Jobs are considered more important and telling of a person/identifying than their family backgrounds, educational attainments and other characteristics

Access to incidental information is very ______ for deaf people

Limited

Which is the best definition of regional variation?

People in one geographic area may use a language differently from people in another geographic area, even though the language they are using has the same name

The ASL sign for DEAF can be made by moving the extended index finger from the chin to the cheek, or in reverse by moving from the cheek to the chin. The former is characteristic of younger deaf signers, whereas middle-aged deaf signers prefer the latter. This is an example of _____ in ASL.

Age variation

Which of the following was NOT a preventative measure utilized in the eugenics movement

Allowing deaf students to use ASL during recess and recreation in schools

Which organization fought for and promoted the use of genetic information in the improvement of the human race?

American Breeders Association

Deaf people in America are best described as ______ because they use both ASL and English in their daily lives, both within the Deaf community and in society

Bilingual

Having a large amount of personal choice allows Americans to express their individualism. This is an example of how cultural values form a __________.

Complex Whole

Deaf people have differing linguistic ________.

competencies

According to Wilcox and Wilcox, children begin life assuming that everyone is the same. Over time, _____________ teaches them to differentiate

culture

True or False: ASL seems to be less standardized than other signed languages

false

True or False: All Deaf people love and listen to music

false

All languages have their own inventory of phonemes that are _________.

learnable

Both the advent of civil rights laws, along with widespread usage of modern technology have:

minimized the communication barriers present for Deaf people

The philosophy that deaf children can and should learn how to speak is called what?

oralism

AG Bellas research on Deaf people and heredity had a _______ audience

receptive

most deaf people would prefer to have a deaf baby instead of a hearing baby

true

Culture should not be confused with biological traits such as

Race

In past generations, ___________ were often the first opportunity for many deaf people to congregate with other non-hearing people

Residential Deaf schools

Why is it important to have the audience sit close to the stage in Deaf theatre productions?

So they are able to see the ASL signs

What did the four student leaders - Rarus, Hlibok, Bourne, and Covell - all have in common?

They were all born deaf into Deaf families

True or False: Although Deaf culture is certainly not noted for its music, many unique artistic presentations associated with music have emerged from the Deaf community

True

True or False: As Americans, it can be assumed that almost all deaf people have some level of English fluency, whereas conversely, not all deaf people know ASL

True

True or False: Bell never resolved the questions of why some hearing parents had deaf children whereas other hearing parents with similar genealogies did not

True

True or False: Culturally Deaf people wear the label Deaf with pride.

True

True or False: Many ASL poems have "lyrics"

True

True or False: Many invented signs from the Signed English system have worked their way into ASL

True

True or False: Many signs in ASL have no simple equivalent or translation into spoken English

True

True or False: Nearly all broad examinations of Bell ignore his racial and eugenic attitudes

True

True or False: People who grow up in a particular culture share certain values and assumptions; But this does NOT mean they share exactly the same values to exactly the same extent.

True

True or False: Sweden is considered the most feminine country in the world

True

True or False: The issue of labeling may seem like no big deal to most, but for disenfranchised groups, it is significant

True

True or False: The name designations made by Deaf people for themselves vary greatly from those imposed by the government

True

True or False: Veditz was more concerned with Bellâ s interference in the education of deaf children than eugenics

True

True or False: there are regional variations of sign language

True

Which of the following is the best definition of an assumption?

Unquestioned givens/postulates about people, life and the way things are

What was the motivation behind the Eugenics movement

Using selective human breeding to address the social and political problems of England during the late-19th century

Which of the following is NOT a phonological parameter of signed languages?

Vowel harmony

In the Baker-Shenk and Cokely model of Deaf Culture which most closely describes the Political factor?

The extent to which the person wields power in the Deaf community affairs

In order to justify eugenics, Bell claimed to be MOST concerned about which of the following?

The future

Which of the following statements BEST represents the American value of The Future, Change and Progress?

The idea that what happens in the future is within their control, or at least subject to their influence

Which statement is MOST closely related to the Swedish value of organization?

The individual derives a strong sense of security from being a part of a group; This allows the person to develop into a strong and independent individual.

Many disability advocates want to get rid of labels or make the disability label secondary to a person's identity. However in the minds of many Deaf people:

The opposite is true, they want to identify as Deaf

According to Holcomb, what percentage of Deaf people were born into the Deaf community?

10

Which of the following statements BEST represents the American value of Individualism?

A country of separate individuals who are responsible for their own situations in life an their own destinies

Which of the following statements BEST represents the American value of Equality?

A deep faith in the fundamental way that all people are of equal value, that nobody is born superior to anyone else

Whose father pioneered the use of "visible speech"?

AG Bell

Which is considered the most powerful and important solution created by Deaf people for effective living?

ASL

Two types of Deâ VIA art include Resistance and _________.

Affirmation

Many of Clayton Valli's poems point to which opposition?

Art vs. Nature; Artificial vs. Natural

Based on the Lecture 1.1, the purpose of culture is to allow members of a group to achieve which one of the following?

Better relationships with each other

Which of the following is a minimal pair in english

Cat-rat

Which of the following is a place where you are unlikely to have learned your cultural values?

Civics textbook

Generally in Deâ VIA art, which of the following tends to be exaggerated?

Human Body parts

In ASL certain grammatical delineations are made through non-manual markers like:

Facial expression

True or False: All deaf people in America are members of Deaf culture simply because they cannot hear

False

True or False: English and ASL have the same grammar

False

True or False: Some oral poetry still exists today, especially as a part of folklore, and has recently seen a resurgence in pop culture

False

True or False: The Western literature we know today is the textualized form of a discourse that was originally written and text based

False

True or False: Viewers should be able to immediately grasp the meaning of Graybillâ s ASL poem "Liberation"

False

True or False: language has one function

False

Although fluent ASL skills are often necessary to receive a Hearing-but label, certain hearing people (with minimal signing skills) receive this label if they have:

Gone out of their way to support the Deaf cause

Who was a well-regarded Deaf landscape painter America

Granville Redmond

Patrick Graybill's ASL poem "Liberation" holds which meaning?

Graybillâ s feelings of liberation in being able to freely use ASL

Frequently, hearing parents __________ their deaf child's "loss" of hearing

Grieve for

Which term does the Deaf community use to refer to those who are not deaf or hard of hearing?

Hearing

In what way did DPN fail?

It failed to make a dent in the thinking of many of the decision makers

All of the following EXCEPT who was a supporter of the Eugenics movement

Martha Vineyard

Who of the following was NOT one of the original deaf teachers in Europe

Matthew Dye

Which is NOT one of the Values and Assumptions commonly held by Americans?

Money

Which organization for deaf people was instrumental in garnering political support for the Deaf President Now movement?

National Association of the Deaf (NAD)

The traditional Deaf culture values should not be considered obsolete, but instead:

One set of surface solutions obscuring the deeper elements of Deaf culture

It is _______ to separate language from culture, as the elements of language reflect the values of the community

Possible

Movement refers to

Specific movements used to produce specific signs

Which statement is MOST closely related to the Swedish value of femininity?

Sweden is a society in which modest behavior is desirable

Which of the following statements BEST represents the American value of Privacy?

The tendency of assuming that most people "need some time to themselves" to think about things or recover their spent psychological energy

In 1967, the National _________ of the Deaf was founded in Rochester, NY (Holcomb, p.188)

Theatre

Which of the following BEST represents the American value of Time?

To do something efficiently is to do it in the way that is quickest and requires the smallest expenditure of resources

The Deaf community is a bilingual, _________ community

Trimodal

Traditional oral poetry is communicated to an audience, but written poetry is described as _______ and distanced from the readers

an elitist product

Traditional oral poetry is communicated to an audience, but written poetry is described as _______ and distanced from the readers.

an elitist product