Continuing Psychology and Sociology.

Question 1

What is Freud’s Theory of the Mind?

Answer 1

human behavior is influenced by unconscious memories, thoughts, and urges

Question 2

What are the defense mechanisms?

Answer 2

ways you react to situations that bring up negative emotions (Denial, Intellectualization (avoding emotion/confrontation), displacement (taking out anger on someone)).

Question 3

What is Freud’s Psychosexual Devel?

Answer 3

children’s pleasure-seeking urges are focused on a different area of the body, called an erogenous zone, at each of the five stages of development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital.

Question 4

What is Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences?

Answer 4

each person has different ways of learning and different intelligences they use in their daily lives.

Question 5

What is structural functionalism?

Answer 5

observation on inner minds by conducting experiments in sensation, perception and attention.

Question 6

What is conflict theory?

Answer 6

a theory that society is in a state of perpetual conflict because of competition for limited resources.

Question 7

What is symbolic Interactionism?

Answer 7

a framework for building theories that see society as a product of everyday human interactions.

Question 8

What is feminist sociology?

Answer 8

Social feminism is a feminist movement that advocates for social rights and special accommodations for women.

Question 9

What are the agents of socialization?

Answer 9

An individual usually learns these aspects of culture and society social groups called agents of socialization. There are five main agents of socialization: family, education, peer groups, religious organization and mass media.

Question 10

What is personality? How does it develop?

Answer 10

• Personality refers to the enduring characteristics and behavior that comprise a person
• based on subjective experiences and individuals’ interaction with their environment.

Question 11

What is sociological gender?

Answer 11

• The characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed.
• This includes norms, behaviours and roles

Question 12

What is biological sex?

Answer 12

usually refers to their status as female, male, or intersex.

Question 13

What is gender identity?

Answer 13

each person’s internal and individual experience of gender. It is a person’s sense of being a woman, a man, both, neither, or anywhere along the gender spectrum.

Question 14

What are gender roles?

Answer 14

how we’re expected to act, speak, dress, groom, and conduct ourselves based upon our assigned sex

Question 15

What causes gender socialization?

Answer 15

family, schools, peer groups, and mass media

Question 16

What are social norms?

Answer 16

taught to behave in a particular way in certain social situations.

Question 17

Conformity?

Answer 17

behaviour that follows established practice.

Question 18

Deviance and social control?

Answer 18

• Is behavior that differs from the social norms of the group and is judged as wrong by members of that group
• is defined as the methods used by society to ensure conformity to social norms

Question 19

What is the Stanley Milgram Experiment?

Answer 19

exploring the willingness of individuals to follow the orders of authorities when those orders conflict with the individual’s own moral judgment.

Question 20

What is the Phil Zimbardo experiment?

Answer 20

two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants’ reactions and behaviors.

Question 21

What is the Soloman Asch Experiment?

Answer 21

to test his theory that people will disregard their own perception of reality and go along with group consensus, even when the group’s answer is clearly wrong.

Question 22

What classifies as certain behaviors being deviant?

Answer 22

It violates the rules of a group (custom, law, role, or moral code).

Question 23

What are the cause of deviant behavior?

Answer 23

Biological Theory – believes that deviance is a result of brain functioning or genetics
Psychological Theory – believes that deviance is a result of early experiences, psychological problems and personality patterns
Sociological Theory – believe that deviance is a learned response to the environment

Question 24

What are the two types of social control?

Answer 24

informal control (informal social control is a tool of families, friends, coworkers, and other peers) and formal control (control is used by governments, religious bodies, and other institutions)