Exam 4: Socialization

According to the textbook,the character of childhood and adolescence is changing due to increasing adult supervision and guidance,decreasing mass media and peer group influence,and the decreasing assumption of substantial adult responsibilities on the part of youth.

Compare and contrast primary socialization,secondary socialization,and resocialization.

Freud argues that learning to control our behavior is a painful and frustrating process.Freud contends that we are therefore forced to ____ in order to continue with our daily lives.

By the time a child reaches the age of seven,she has learned how to play complex games requiring that she:

A category of people composed of individuals who are not necessarily friends but are about the same age and of similar status is called a:

Once children understand that gravity will cause a ball that is thrown up in the air to fall back to earth,which stage of cognitive development have they achieved?

A ____ is the behavior expected of a person occupying a particular position in society.

Under the impact of social forces discussed in Chapter 4,the experience and meaning of childhood and adolescence now seem to be:

In total institutions,resocialization is often slow and incomplete due to the absence of initiation rites.

The stage of thinking (or "cognitive development")in which a child is capable of exploring the world only through their senses is known as the ____ stage.

Which of the following are NOT stages in an initiation rite:

Students may believe that they are solely evaluated on the basis of test scores.However,Brym and Lie suggest that it is not just performance,but also ____ criteria that determines success in school and in the work world.

The research of René Spitz shows that:

The examples of children who lack social contact discussed in the text demonstrate that the ability to learn culture and become fully human is a (n):

Private Lyndie England became infamous when photographs were made public of her and other American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.Private England of Abu Ghraib was not the Lyndie England of high school.She was transformed by ____ that made the prisoners seem subhuman.

According to Freud,what is the ego?

Freud called the part of the self that mediates the interests of the id and the superego the:

According to Kohlberg,some adults lack the capacity for advanced moral reasoning.These individuals would be placed in which category?

What is the Thomas theorem and how does it work?

One of the most important factors contributing to the growing flexibility of the self is the process of: