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SOC401 Adams State Children Culture Role in The Maintenance of Society Exam I need help in a psychology quiz..it consist of 50 multiple choice questions ADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENDED STUDIES
SOC 401: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Final Exam
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Instructions: You have one hour to complete this closed book, closed note exam. This exam
consists of fifty multiple choice questions and is worth a total of 200 points. Indicate the
option that best completes the statement or answers the question based on the text.
____1. Which social psychologist is associated with the looking-glass self?
A) George Herbert Mead
B) Michel Foucault
C) Georg Simmel
D) Charles Horton Cooley
____2. What role does children’s culture play in the maintenance of society?
A) Children develop an independent culture that is not reflective of accepted social practices.
B) Children mold specific roles to meet the needs of their peer groups.
C) Children’s improvisations reinforce the unchanging nature of culture over time.
D) Children exactly mimic adult culture as a means of learning norms.
____3. Which of the following is considered a primary agent of socialization?
A) Work
B) Peers
C) Religion
D) Government
____4. Rosenthal and Jacobson’s study of classroom interaction is important because it showed
that _____.
A) children are taught to be racist in the classroom
B) IQ scores could be manipulated based on a group prejudice.
C) children’s IQ scores were not linked to race
D) racist beliefs and values exist in every classroom
____5. Socialization is a process that _____.
A) begins around two years of age
B) lasts until the young twenties
C) begins at birth and continues through the life cycle
D) begins in late childhood
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____6. From the sociological point of view, Mead viewed play and games as important to
children’s social development because games _____.
A) give children practice and agility
B) increase children’s motor skills
C) help develop children’s mental toughness
D) allow children to learn and practice taking on the roles of others
____7. What is the first agent of socialization?
A) the media
B) the peer group
C) the family
D) the educational system
____8. The fact that expectations can influence student intellectual development in the classroom
is called _____.
A) educational socialization
B) the Pygmalion effect
C) stereotyping
D) total impact
____9. Several studies have shown that there is a correlation between watching _____ and
_____.
A) violent television; aggressive behavior
B) violent television; violent crime
C) nonviolent television; stereotyping
D) racist television; violent behavior
____10. How can macrosociological perspectives be used to study individual-level, or microlevel, interactions?
A) Macrosociological conditions may cause some individual-level conditions to exist
in the first place.
B) Differences in our macrosociological conditions are irrelevant to the way we react
to life events.
C) Life events that affect us the most are never caused by societal conditions.
____11. Murder would most likely be considered the breaking of a _____; picking your nose in
public would be breaking a _____.
A) more; folkway
B) folkway; more
C) norm; value
D) more; more
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____12. According to labeling theory, a _____ occurs the first time someone does something
that is defined as deviant.
A) primary act of deviance
B) secondary act of deviance
C) taboo
D) folkway violation
____13. Which theorist is most associated with primary and secondary deviance?
A) C. Wright Mills
B) Edwin Lemert
C) Robert Merton
D) Herbert Blumer
____14. How has Howard Becker’s research contributed to our understanding of deviance?
A) It shows the important role of deviant subcultures in the maintenance of deviant
identities.
B) It explains away the relationship between primary and secondary deviance.
C) It shows that some experiences, such as drug experiences, are not influenced by
social conditions.
D) It proves that deviance occurs only in criminal subcultures.
____15. A nurse regularly brings a six pack of beer to work and consumes it over his shift,
brushing his teeth to keep his breath clean. According to Goffman, what kind of
behavior is the nurse engaging in?
A) Passing.
B) Covering.
C) Stigma.
D) Retrospective interpretations.
____16. Most college students represent _____ in Merton’s typology of deviance.
A) conformists
B) innovators
C) ritualists
D) retreatists
____17. Which of the following crimes best exemplifies white-collar crime?
A) Stealing a purse.
B) Simple assault.
C) Telling a lie to a friend.
D) Embezzling from work.
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____18. _____ are individuals who seek to challenge either traditional goals or the accepted
means of achieving those goals.
A) Rebels
B) Ritualists
C) Innovators
D) Retreatists
____19. Which of the following theories interprets the responses of others as the most
significant factor in understanding how deviant behavior is created and sustained?
A) Differential association theory.
B) Social control theory.
C) Labeling theory.
D) Structural strain theory.
____20. Which social theorists are most associated with the concept of the social construction of
reality?
A) Marx and Engels
B) Thomas and Thomas
C) Berger and Luckmann
D) Blumer and Mead
____21. Which social theorist applied role theory to understanding the sick?
A) Peter Conrad
B) Michel Foucault
C) Talcott Parsons
D) Herbert Blumer
____22. The loss of a job is represented in which component or components of the stress
process?
A) Stressors.
B) Outcomes.
C) Mediators and moderators.
D) Social and economic characteristics.
____23. What kind of stressors do college students typically report?
A) Adjustment problems.
B) Deaths of loved ones.
C) Job losses.
D) Fears of professors.
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____24. Which of the following is a social support that may help reduce the effects of negative
life events?
A) Living in a poor neighborhood.
B) Having a happy marriage.
C) Effectively repressing emotions.
D) Living in a very urbanized environment.
____25. How can minority status impact mental health ratings?
A) Minorities often have lower economic status, which is associated with more
distress.
B) Minorities are less likely to have mental health problems.
C) Minorities have different social constructions of mental health problems than
other groups.
D) Minorities are more likely to have genetic mental health problems.
____26. Given the research on the epidemiology of mental health, which group is more likely
than the others to report problems with drinking? With depression?
A) married people; singles
B) African Americans; Latinos
C) African Americans; Whites
D) men; women
____27. Which of the following would be considered a total institution?
A) A college.
B) A police station.
C) A prison.
D) A family household.
____28. Which sociologist is most associated with concept of stigma?
A) Erving Goffman.
B) Georg Simmel.
C) George Herbert Mead.
D) Herbert Blumer.
____29. Jenna Howard found that those with more social and fiscal capital were able to do
what?
A) Access mental health services at higher rates.
B) Successfully “de-label” themselves as mentally ill.
C) Use less medication in the treatment of mental illness.
D) Avoid institutionalization.
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____30. Humphries’ research on the “tearoom trade” was considered controversial because
_____.
A) he did not use a snowball sample
B) he studied homosexuality in public places
C) he placed his subjects at risk of emotional and social hardship
D) his research did not use quantitative data
____31. According to time use researchers, how do people spend most of their weekly free
time?
A) Watching TV.
B) Learning something new.
C) Playing sports.
D) Organizing their schedules.
____32. Individuals’ attitudes are _____ predictors of their behavior.
A) very strong
B) weak
C) somewhat strong
D) perfect
____33. Of the following social theorists, who is most associated with the study of racial
prejudice in the United States?
A) George Herbert Mead
B) W.E.B. Du Bois
C) Talcott Parsons
D) William Thomas
____34. Nathan started Attending KKK meetings when he saw some of his African American
neighbors get better jobs than he did. Which of the following theories best explains
Nathan’s negative attitudes toward African Americans?
A) Social distance theory.
B) Symbolic interaction.
C) Blumer’s theory of group position.
D) Status construction theory.
____35. Decades of social distance research shows that most Americans _____.
A) oppose racial and ethnic diversity
B) are open to some racial and ethnic diversity
C) are not racist
D) are more racist than in the past
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____36. Recent research, using the Bogardus social distance scale, indicates which group to be
the most “distant” among American students?
A) African Americans
B) Latinos
C) Asians
D) Arabs
____37. In the United States, which group tends to be the most liberal?
A) Females living in the Midwest.
B) Females living on the West Coast.
C) Males living in the Midwest.
D) Males living on the West Coast.
____38. One explanation for the income disparity between men and women is the _____, in
which women with children make disproportionately less money than men or women
without children.
A) motherhood advantage
B) uncommitted worker factor
C) gender bias preclusion
D) motherhood penalty
____39. Research generally shows that American attitudes on most major social issues have
been _____ over the last 30 years.
A) pretty stable
B) changing dramatically
C) based on stable values
D) changing not at all
____40. Michael Schwalb argues that people with high status have what kind of relationship
with social norms in society?
A) They are forced to conform to norms.
B) They are victimized by norms.
C) They can completely reject social norms.
D) They can manipulate social norms to favor themselves.
____41. Clem has been feeling sad all day long. What term best describes his emotional state?
A) Sentiment
B) Feeling
C) Mood
D) Affect
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____42. Which of the following emotions is considered a primary emotion?
A) Guilt
B) Pride
C) Conceit
D) Anger
____43. What emotion did wheelchair users employ when managing interactions with “standup” people, in Cahill and Eggleston’s study of people with handicaps?
A) Fear
B) Anger
C) Love
D) Humor
____44. The application of the symbolic interaction perspective on the role of emotions in the
interaction process would focus on ______, the exchange of symbols and emotions
between individuals, as the unit of analysis.
A) the interaction ritual
B) emotional energy
C) the sociocentric model
D) emotional scripts
____45. According to Randall Collins’s theory of interaction ritual chains, what role does
emotion play in the maintenance of society?
A) Emotional energies provide the reason for maintaining interactions in society.
B) Emotional scripts provide information about how to behave in society.
C) Emotions give us cues as whether we are performing our roles in society
adequately.
D) Emotions exist within a series of “feeling rules” about how to behave in society.
____46. According to exchange theory and research, which of the following situations is most
likely to produce a positive emotion?
A) An exchange in which what you get is commensurate to your social position in
the group.
B) An exchange in which you get as much as you give.
C) An exchange in which you get less than you give.
D) An exchange in which you get more than you give.
____47. The meanings of emotions _____ over the life course.
A) remain the same
B) change in both direction and strength
C) change only in direction
D) change only in strength
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____48. Your friend Chloe goes through a bad break-up and loser cat all in the same week.
When you and Chloe expresses the tragedies that have befallen her the past week to
Sarah, who proceeds to listen and then change the conversation. Once back to your
dinner, Chloe expresses her dismay that Sarah did not seem concerned about her breakup or about loss of her cat. Chloe is upset because her _____ were not met?
A) social scripts
B) emotional scripts
C) sentiments
D) emotions
____49. Which of the following jobs demands high levels of emotion work?
A) Plumber.
B) Teacher.
C) Ballet dancer.
D) Factory worker.
____50. Schooler and Oates (2001) found that people who work in jobs that require little
supervision from others and who engage in intellectually complex tasks have _____
years later than others who perform more mundane work.
A) higher self-esteem
B) lower self-esteem
C) lower self-consistency
D) higher self-mastery
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