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Chapter 5 Test
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a. personality
b. resocialization
c. role-taking
d. total institution
e. heredity
f. significant others
g. instinct
h. mass media
i. looking-glass self
j. sociobiology
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1. The systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior.
2. Instruments of communication that reach large audiences with no personal contact between those sending the
information and those receiving it.
3. The internalized attitudes, expectations, and viewpoints of society.
4. An unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern.
5. Wild or untamed children; children with few human characteristics other than appearance.
6. The sum of total behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual.
7. The unsocialized, spontaneous, self-interested component of personality and self-identity.
8. People that include parents, siblings, relatives, and others who have a direct influence on our socialization.
9. The interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to
others.
10. The conscious awareness of possessing a distinct identity that separates you and your environment from other
members of society.
11. The transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children.
12. A break with past experiences and the learning of new values and norms.
13. A capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge.
14. Taking or pretending to take the role of others.
15. The part of ourselves that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society; the socialized self.
16. A setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time and are subject to tight
control.
17. The interactive process through which people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of a
society.
18. A primary group composed of individuals of roughly equal age and similar social characteristics.
19. Idea that each individual is born without a personality.
20. The specific individuals, groups, and institutions that enable socialization to take place.
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 21. ____ is the sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual.
a. popularity
c. both a and b
b. personality
d. neither a nor b
____ 22. Personality traits determine
a. each individual’s own way of interacting with other people and his/her social environment.
b. how we adjust to our environment and how we react in specific situations.
c. both a and b
d. neither a nor b
____ 23. Heredity is
a. the transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children.
b. the social environment that affects social learning.
c. both a and b
d. neither a nor b
____ 24. Certain characteristics that are present at birth are:
a. genes
c. both a and b
b. heredity
d. neither a nor b
____ 25. An aptitude is
a. the capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge.
b. a natural talent for music or art.
c. learned as well as inherited.
d. all of the above
____ 26. Heredity may be influenced by:
a. birth order
c. both a and b
b. characteristics of the parents
d. neither a nor b
____ 27. Feral children point strongly to the conclusion that our personality comes from our
a. heredity.
c. both a and b
b. cultural environment.
d. neither a nor b
____ 28. Feral children
a. are wild or untamed children.
b. had few human characteristics.
c. acquired no reasoning ability, no manners, and no ability to control their bodily functions.
d. all of the above
____ 29. Socialization encompass the following processes:
a. learning basic skills
c. learning values and beliefs
b. learning behavior patterns of society
d. all of the above
____ 30. The Tabula Rasa was developed by
a. Charles Horton Cooley.
c. George Herbert Mead.
b. John Locke.
d. none of the above
____ 31. The concept of the Looking-Glass Self was developed by
a. John Locke.
c. Charles Horton Cooley.
b. George Herbert Mead.
d. none of the above
____ 32. The theory that refers to seeing ourselves as others see us in addition to taking on or pretending to take on the
roles of others is known as
a. role-taking.
c. the Tabula Rasa.
b. the looking-glass self.
d. none of the above
____ 33. In the United States, the primary agents of socialization include
a. family and peer groups.
c. the school.
b. mass media.
d. all of the above
True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.
____ 34. Heredity characteristics include body build, hair type, eye color, and skin pigmentation.
____ 35. Aptitude is the capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge.
____ 36. Instinct is a changing, biologically inherited behavior pattern.
____ 37. Our personalities are not influenced by whether or not we have brothers, sisters, both, or neither.
____ 38. Subcultural differences, i.e. the type of neighborhood in which an individual is raised, also affect personality.
____ 39. Sociologists found that the effects of institutionalization on infants, i.e. lack of a caring environment, will result in
slower development of their mental, physical, and emotional skills.
____ 40. Tabula Rasa theory believes that individuals are born with some personality.
____ 41. Significant others are individuals that are not of any significance to help form our socialization.
____ 42. As we grow older, significant others become more important.
____ 43. In the United States, the primary agents of socialization include the family, the peer group, the school, and the
mass media.
____ 44. The family is the least important agent of socialization in almost every society.
____ 45. Peer group socialization is the same as family socialization.
Essay
46. Compare and contrast “Nature” versus “Nurture”.
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The nature viewpoint believes much of human behavior is instinctual in origin, and carried through heredity
which is based on genetics. Behavior is passed along to children from their parents. Proponents of the nature
viewpoint claim that instinctual drives were responsible for practically everything, even the creation of society
itself. Because it is instinctual, it is an unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern.. The nurture viewpoint
is that a person’s behavior and personality are the result of his or her social environment and learning. Ivan
Pavlov helped this viewpoint gain acceptance with the experiment teaching the dog to respond to a bell. Despite
the differences, most social scientists believe that personality and social behavior result from a blending of
heredity and social environmental influences.