Sociology Ch. 5 - Carli

By "taking the role of the other," Mead had in mind:

All social interaction involves seeing.

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

Basic Human needs.

Which theory developed by the psychologist John B. Watson claims human behavior is not instinctive but learned within a social environment?

Behaviorism.

Carol Gilligan's work on the issue of self-esteem in girls showed that:

Girls by contrast have a care & responsibility perspective, judging a situation with an eye toward personal relationships.

According to Mead, social experience involves:

Interaction.

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

Personality.

For Piaget, at which stage of development do individuals 1st use language and other cultural symbols?

Preoperational Stage.

Mead placed the origin of the self in:

Product of social experience.

What concept refers to the lifelong social experience by which human beings develop their potential and learn culture?

Socialization.

Carol Gilligan extended Kohlberg's research, showing that:

The 2 sexes use different standards of rightness.

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

The Id, Ego, & Superego.

Jean Piaget's focus was on:

The Theory of Cognitive Development.

The focus of Lawrence Kohlberg's research was:

The Theory of Moral Development

George Herbert Mead considered the self to be:

The part of an individual's personality composed of self-awareness & self-image.

Describe Erik H. Erikson's view of socialization

family members play a key part in an infants life

The tragic case of Anna, the isolated girl studied by Kingsley Davis, shows that:

humans depend on others to provide the care and nurture needed not only for physical growth but also for personality to develop.

List Mead's sequence stages of the developing self in order

imitation, play, games, generalized other

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

infant monkeys could recover from about 3 months of isolation, but 6 months caused severe emotional and behavioral damage.

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

many factors including the Family & school shape our personalities

In the nature versus nurture debate, sociologists claim that:

nurture matters more in shaping human behavior.

When Cooley used the concept "looking-glass self," he meant to say that:

ourselves as others see us.

According to Mead, children learn to take the role of the other as they model themselves on important people in their lives, such as parents. Mead referred to these people as:

significant others

Mead considered the "generalized other" to be;

widespread cultural norms& values see us as a reference in evaluating ourselves