The tragic case of Anna, the isolated girl who was studied by Kingsley Davis, shows that
Without social experience, a child is incapable of thought or meaningful action.
What concept refers to the life long social experience by which human beings develop their potential and learn culture?
Socialization
What concept refers to a person's fairly consistent pattern of acting, thinking, and feeling?
Personality
Which theory, developed by the psychologist John B. Watson, claims that human behavior is not instinctive, but learned within a social environment?
Behaviorism
In the nature versus nature debate, sociologists claim that
Nurture is far more important than nature.
The social sciences, including sociology, make the claim that
As humans, to nurture is our nature.
The Harlow experiments to discover the effects of social isolation on rhesus monkeys showed that
Monkeys isolated for six months were highly fearful when they were returned to others of their kind
Based on the Harlows' research with rhesus monkeys and the case of Anna, the isolated child, one might reasonably conclude that
Long-term social isolation leads to permanent developmental damage in both monkeys and humans
If you were to put together the lesson learned from the cases of Anna, Isabelle, and Genie, you would correctly conclude that
The effect of long-term social isolation can never be overcome in any situation.
Our basic drives or needs as humans are reflected in Freud's concept of the?
Id (meaning "it")
In Freud's model of personality, which element of the personality represents a person's efforts to balance the demands of society and innate pleasure-seeking drives?
Ego (meaning "I")
In Freud's model of personality, what represents the presence of culture within in individual?
Superego (meaning "above & beyond the ego")
Applying Freud's thinking to a sociological analysis of personality development you would conclude that
Humans have basic, self-centered drives that must be controlled by learning the way of society.
Jean Piaget's focus was on
cognition, or how people think and understand.
According to Piaget, in what stage of human development to individuals experience the world only through sensory contact?
Sensorimotor Stage (first two years of development)
For Jean Piaget, at which stage of development do individuals first use language and other cultural symbols?
Peoperational Stage (2-6 years of age)
The focus of Lawrence Kohlberg's research was?
Moral reasoning, or how individuals judge situations as right or wrong.
Carol Gilligan extended Kohlberg's research, showing that
Girls and boys typically assess situations as right and wrong using different standards.
Carol Gilligan's work on the issue of self-esteem in girls showed that
Girls begin with high levels of self-esteems, which gradually decrease as they go through adolescence.
George Herbert Mead considered the self to be?
The part of an individual's personality that is composed of self-awareness and self-image.
Mead places the origin of the self on?
Social experience
According to Mead, social experience involves
The exchange of symbols
By "taking the role of the other," mead had in mind?
Recognizing that people have different views of most situations.
When Cooley used the concept of the "looking-glass self," he claimed that
People see themselves as they think others see them.
According to Mead, children learn to take the role of the other as they model themselves on important people in their lives,. such as parents. Mead referred to these people as?
Significant others