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21. A child who is repeatedly criticized as being lazy and lacking intelligence eventually accepts these criticisms and uses them to justify poor performance in school This is an example of___________?
- A. the contact hypothesis
- B. a self-fulfilling prophecy
- C. scapegoating
- D. reverse discrimination
Explanation: This is a self-fulfilling prophecy: repeated expectations influence a person’s self-concept and behaviour until the expected outcome occurs. The child internalises the label and performs in ways that appear to confirm it.
Correct answer: a self-fulfilling prophecy22. The teacher-expectancy effect is most closely associated with the_______________?
- A. functionalist perspective
- B. conflict perspective
- C. interactionist perspective
- D. anomie theoryAccess Government Careers
Explanation: The teacher-expectancy effect is an interactionist example of a self-fulfilling prophecy: teachers’ expectations can shape how they treat students and influence student performance. Functionalism and conflict theory focus on broader institutional patterns rather than this classroom interaction process.
Correct answer: interactionist perspective23. Bowlby's maternal deprivation thesis claimed that_______________?
- A. mothers who are living in poverty cannot afford to give their children the resources that other children enjoy
- B. children deprived of an early secure attachment to their mother are prone to suffer physically intellectually and socially in later life
- C. mothering is a socially constructed activity identified in the narratives of new mothers
- D. deprivation is something children inherit usually through their mothers' side
Explanation: Bowlby argued that prolonged deprivation of an early maternal attachment could harm a child’s later emotional, intellectual and social development. His thesis concerns insecure or disrupted attachment, not poverty alone or inherited deprivation.
Correct answer: children deprived of an early secure attachment to their mother are prone to suffer physically intellectually and socially in later life24. Freuds notion of the ego referred to________________?
- A. the unconscious mass of instinctive drives that may be repressed
- B. the self as a whole an unstable mix of conscious and unconscious elements
- C. the conscious part of the mind that regulates emotional drives on a practical rational level
- D. the neurotic part of the mind that longs for belonging and may suffer an inferiority complexPeople & Society
Explanation: In Freud’s model, the ego is the conscious, reality-oriented part of the mind that mediates between instinctive desires and practical demands. The unconscious drives described in option a belong mainly to the id.
Correct answer: the conscious part of the mind that regulates emotional drives on a practical rational level25. Role-learning theory suggests that______________?
- A. we internalize and take on social roles from a pre-existing framework
- B. we create and negotiate our roles through interaction with others
- C. social roles are not fixed or stable but fluid and pluralistic
- D. roles have to be learned to suppress unconscious motivations
Explanation: Role-learning theory treats roles as patterns that people acquire and internalise through an existing social framework. Option b instead reflects the interactionist idea that roles are negotiated during interaction.
Correct answer: we internalize and take on social roles from a pre-existing framework26. Which of the following used the phrase looking-glass self to emphasize that the self is the product of our social interactions with other people ?
- A. George Herbert Mead
- B. Charles Horton Cooley
- C. Erving Goffman
- D. Harry Harlow
Explanation: Charles Horton Cooley coined the idea of the looking-glass self, in which people develop self-image by imagining how others see and judge them. Mead also explained the social development of the self, but he did not use this phrase.
Correct answer: Charles Horton Cooley27. The major development task(s) in middle adulthood include(s)________________?
- A. sex
- B. love and work
- C. socialization
- D. preparation for death
Explanation: Middle adulthood commonly centres on maintaining intimate relationships and productive work, often expressed as the developmental tasks of love and work. Preparation for death is more closely associated with later adulthood.
Correct answer: love and work28. A person's self-esteem - low or high -is mainly a function of________________?
- A. introspective rejuvenation
- B. self-ethnography
- C. social comparisons
- D. none of the above
Explanation: Self-esteem develops partly through social comparison, as people evaluate their abilities and worth against those of others. The other two terms are not established explanations of self-esteem in sociology.
Correct answer: social comparisons29. The process of social interaction by which people acquire the knowledge attitudes values and behaviors essential for effective participation in society is called_____________?
- A. culture
- B. definition of the situation
- C. social communication
- D. socialization
Explanation: Socialization is the lifelong process through which people learn society’s knowledge, values, attitudes and behavioural expectations. Culture is what is learned, whereas socialization is the process of learning it.
Correct answer: socialization30. A human being deprived of all communication with other humans from birth would lack all but one of the following ?
- A. Self
- B. rudimentary personality
- C. Language
- D. None of these
Explanation: Without human communication, a person would not develop a socially formed self, language or normal personality, although some rudimentary personality tendencies may remain from biological dispositions. This makes rudimentary personality the best answer.
Correct answer: rudimentary personality