Sociology Ch 3

Which of the following depicts a feral child?

• a baby being raised in an orphanage with limited stimulation and human contact
• a child who live his or her whole life in a small, windowless space communicating only with his mute mother
• a teenager found locked in a room and tied to a chair who never learned to walk or talk
• a child living alone in the woods, unable to speak, walking on all fours, and impervious to the cold

If a child does not learn language and experience human bonding by about age _____ _____, he or she will not develop normal intelligence.

• 5
• 9
• 2
• 13

Which of the following is essential to the development of human characteristics and culture?

• language
• role conflict
• socialization into gender roles
• the formal operational stage of reasoning

Which of the following is an example of George Herbert Mead's play stage, the second stage of learning to take the role of the other?

• Kyle is learning to count.
• Mary dresses up in a white coat and pretends to be a doctor.
• Casey is joining a soccer team.
• Kevin is mimicking his mother's facial expressions.

George's brother is a star athlete on their high school's basketball team. George enjoys basketball as well but can't match the skills of his brother. His friends often tease him about being a bad player, and his parents have stopped coming to his Junior Varsity games, preferring to watch his brother play. According to Charles Cooley, how is George likely to feel about himself?

• Because people view him as a bad basketball player, George will view himself as a bad basketball player.
• Because George feels like a worse player than his brother, he is more likely to work to improve his play.
• Because his parents and friends encourage his brother, George will also feel encouraged.
• Because he enjoys playing basketball, George will disregard the feelings of his parents and peers.

What are the stages in George Herbert Mead's analysis of role taking?

• sensorimotor, play, others
• imitation, play, team games
• I, me, others
• sensorimotor, preoperational, operational

Charmaine is convinced that people find her boring. In Charles Horton Cooley's analysis, this is an example of__________.

• the concrete operational stage of reasoning
• the "I" and the "me" parts of the self
• the third stage of role taking
• an element of the looking-glass self

During which stage of Jean Piaget's analysis of the development of reasoning, does a child start to recognize letters, but does not know what the letters mean?

• formal operational
• preoperational
• sensorimotor
• concrete operational

According to Freud, what happens when a person's superego gets out of control?

• The person breaks society's rules and norms.
• The person bounces back and forth between instant gratification and rigid conformity.
• The person seeks immediate fulfillment of wants and needs.
• The person becomes overly rigid in conforming to society's rules.

Bobby wants to play a video game; however, he is not allowed to play after 7:00 pm and it is now 7:30 pm. If he plays the game and gets caught, his mother will take away all of his games. He decides to follow the rule because he does not want to lose all of his games. According to Lawrence Kohlberg, Bobby is in the __________ stage.

• preconventional
• conventional
• postconventional
• amoral