Question:Question 9
According to the author of your text, one main reason that two of the New Guinean tribes studied by Margaret Mead were generally either very gentle or very aggressive was that they
consumed different kinds of food, which affected their stature and disposition.
differed with regards to how threatened they were by other tribes.
differed in terms of sex ratio.
differed in terms of average family size.
Question 10
Every society
has a number of different positions.
connects specific norms to each of its different social positions.
can be conceived as a collection of related roles.
socializes people to hold particular positions.
all of the above
Question 11
According to Jean Piaget, normal cognitive development
1.consists of acquiring given rules of reasoning by particular ages.
2.enables children to solve problems requiring a higher stage of development before they have reached that stage if this is taught to them by someone who has already achieved this higher stage and is able to communicate its essential rules.
3.is explained adequately by S-R (stimulus-response) theory.
requires learning certain rules of reasoning but in no particular order.
Question 12
Skeels and Dye found that
most of their orphan subjects who were given personalized care were only able to experience a slight rise in IQ following their years of neglect.
most of the orphan children in their study who were cared for by mildly retarded girls were able to finish high school and otherwise live a normal life.
most of the orphan children who remained in the orphanage managed to live a self-supporting, relatively normal life as adults, but with IQs that were diminished significantly.
most of the orphan children who had been connected to an age-specific peer group became fully socialized with normal IQ ranges.
Question 13
This type of language is ultimately rooted in an earlier, simpler jargon that was used for the purpose of facilitating communication between two or more groups that spoke different languages but had not had the opportunity to learn one another’s languages.
pidgin
creole
argot
lingua Franca
Question 14
Skeels and Dye studied orphanage-raised children who had been severely neglected. These children
were effected by their experience very different than were the monkeys raised in isolation studied by Harry and Margaret Harlow.
were not similar at all to children who had suffered severe child neglect in non-institutional settings.
had abnormally low IQs and usually did not progress beyond the third grade.
ended up, as adults, with criminal histories more similar to their biological parents’ than to that of other orphanage-raised children.
Question 15
In all societies, all children are
raised in the same way.
not raised in the same way.
raised to take on one specific occupational role.
raised to adopt only one major social role.
Question 16
The ____ is learned during the ____ stage.
rule of conservation; sensorimotor
rule of object permanence; sensorimotor
rule of conservation; object permanence
rule of object permanence; preoperational
