P/S MCAT 04

Question 1

What approach focuses on the function of each component of society and how those components fit together

Answer 1

functionalism

Question 2

What kind of functions are deliberate actions that help to serve a given system?

Answer 2

manifest functions

Question 3

What are latent functions?

Answer 3

They are unexpected, unintended or unrecognized positive consequences of manifest functions

Question 4

Which theory deals with how power differentials are created and how those differentials contribute to the maintenance of social order?

Answer 4

conflict theory

Question 5

The study of how individuals interact through a shared understanding of words, gestures and other symbols is ?

Answer 5

symbolic interactionism

Question 6

What concept explores the ways in which individuals and groups make decisions to agree upon a given social reality?

Answer 6

social constructionism

Question 7

Rational choice theory states that?

Answer 7

Individuals will make decisions that maximize potential benefit and minimize potential harm

Question 8

What is cultural lag?

Answer 8

It is the idea that material culture changes faster than symbolic culture

Question 9

What is a demographic transition?

Answer 9

It is a model used to represent drops in birth and death rate due to industrialization

Question 10

A state of normlessness is termed?

Answer 10

anomie

Question 11

The investment that people make in their society in return for economic or collective rewards is termed?

Answer 11

social capital eg social network

Question 12

What is meritocracy?

Answer 12

A society where advancement up the social ladder is based on intellectual talent and achievement

Question 13

The passing on of social inequality like poverty from one generation to the next is termed?

Answer 13

social reproduction

Question 14

what is environmental injustice?

Answer 14

defined as the disproportionate exposure of communities of color and the poor to pollution, and its concomitant effects on health and environment, as well as the unequal environmental protection and environmental quality provided through laws, regulations,

Question 15

The burden or degree of illness associated with a given disease is?

Answer 15

morbidity

Question 16

The exacerbation of health outcomes caused by social injustice is?

Answer 16

second sickness

Question 17

what are the types of neuron?

Answer 17

unipolar, multipolar and bipolar

Question 18

normally, sodium leaks _ and potassium leaks _

Answer 18

in and out. But with the ATPase, its different

Question 19

what is the absolute refractory period?

Answer 19

during this time, it is not possible to get another action potential

Question 20

what is the relative refractory period?

Answer 20

A greater potential difference is required to fire an action potential

Question 21

an excitatory neurotransmitter _ the post synaptic membrane

Answer 21

depolarizes. examples are glutamate which would cause an action potential. This is done by gathering positive charges

Question 22

what is temporal summation?

Answer 22

This occurs when neuron receive signals from the same presynaptic neuron at different times.

Question 23

what is spatial summation?

Answer 23

signals come from different neurons which add up to cause enough potential difference to cause depolarization

Question 24

the amygdala is related to the emotion of?

Answer 24

fear

Question 25

what is the lazarus or cognitive appraisal theory?

Answer 25

When we encounter different stimuli, our brain processes them and decides how we feel about them(interpretation). After that, emotions and physical sensations happen simultaneously.

Question 26

what do pacinian corpuscles responsive to?

Answer 26

vibrations

Question 27

tonotypical map and tonographical map is related to ?

Answer 27

pitch(frequency) and place respectively