SOCIOLOGY 111 UPDATED CORE EXAM MANUAL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Maria and Manuel read a book to their child every night before they put him to bed.
This is an example of a - ✔✔routine.
✔✔Mary is a teacher who likes to use lots of praise in her classroom. Which of the
following best describes the principle Mary is usuing? - ✔✔Positive reinforcement
✔✔Observational learning differs from cognitive learning in that observational learning
is more likely to emphasize - ✔✔modeling.
✔✔Professor Jones is studying how a person responds to the temptation to violate
moral rules, such as lying and cheating. Professor Jones is studying which aspect of
moral development? - ✔✔Behavioral
✔✔Rituals that signify changes in individuals' status as they move through the cycle of
life and referred to as which of the following? - ✔✔Rites of Passage
✔✔Talking about the reasons why a child cannot do something is characteristic of -
✔✔Authoritative parents.
✔✔The ability to control one's impulses, behavior, and/or emotions until an appropriate
time is available for expression is called - ✔✔self-regulation.
✔✔The last of Erikson's stages is which of the following? - ✔✔Integrity vs despair
✔✔The media differs from other socializing agents in which of the following ways? -
✔✔It does not ordinarily direct personal interaction.
✔✔The socializing agent of which the function is to provide information about the world
and oneself from a perspective other than that of the family is which of the following? -
✔✔The peer group
✔✔when a teacher gives explanations or causes for an act, this is called -
✔✔reasoning.
✔✔When an 18-month-old throws a temper tantrum because he can't have a cookie, he
is demonstrating that he has not yet developed - ✔✔self-regulation.
✔✔Which coping style is associated with "doing" and "getting things done"? - ✔✔Active
, ✔✔Which method of socialization involves feeling or emotions such love, anger, fear, or
disgust? - ✔✔Affective
✔✔Which orientation emphasizes affiliation, cooperation, and interpersonal relations? -
✔✔Collectivist
✔✔Which socializing agent bears the major responsibility for socializing the child? -
✔✔The family
✔✔Which socializing agent has the purpose to perpetuate society's knowledge, skills,
customs, and beliefs? - ✔✔the school
✔✔According to your text, the technical definition of marriage is which of the following?
- ✔✔A legal contract with certain rights and obligations
✔✔Because of the changing nature of families, the U.S. Bureau of the Census no
longer provides statistics on the number of children residing in - ✔✔stepfamilies.
✔✔Caring and involvement towards one another is an example of which function of the
family? - ✔✔Nurturance/emotional support
✔✔Compares to research examining single-parent mother,________research has been
done on children being raised by single-parent fathers. - ✔✔little
✔✔Economic changes such as downsizing and layoffs are likely to result in -
✔✔increased parental stress.
✔✔Empowerment refers to - ✔✔enabling individuals to have control over resources
affecting them.
✔✔Great Britain's royal family is an example of a(n)______family. - ✔✔Matriarchal
✔✔In which step family would we expect to see children with the most behavior
problems? - ✔✔Step family with children from both mom's previous marriage and dad's
previous marriage
✔✔Increasing numbers of children are being raised by relatives other than their parents.
The most common of these arrangements is children being raised by -
✔✔Grandparents.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Maria and Manuel read a book to their child every night before they put him to bed.
This is an example of a - ✔✔routine.
✔✔Mary is a teacher who likes to use lots of praise in her classroom. Which of the
following best describes the principle Mary is usuing? - ✔✔Positive reinforcement
✔✔Observational learning differs from cognitive learning in that observational learning
is more likely to emphasize - ✔✔modeling.
✔✔Professor Jones is studying how a person responds to the temptation to violate
moral rules, such as lying and cheating. Professor Jones is studying which aspect of
moral development? - ✔✔Behavioral
✔✔Rituals that signify changes in individuals' status as they move through the cycle of
life and referred to as which of the following? - ✔✔Rites of Passage
✔✔Talking about the reasons why a child cannot do something is characteristic of -
✔✔Authoritative parents.
✔✔The ability to control one's impulses, behavior, and/or emotions until an appropriate
time is available for expression is called - ✔✔self-regulation.
✔✔The last of Erikson's stages is which of the following? - ✔✔Integrity vs despair
✔✔The media differs from other socializing agents in which of the following ways? -
✔✔It does not ordinarily direct personal interaction.
✔✔The socializing agent of which the function is to provide information about the world
and oneself from a perspective other than that of the family is which of the following? -
✔✔The peer group
✔✔when a teacher gives explanations or causes for an act, this is called -
✔✔reasoning.
✔✔When an 18-month-old throws a temper tantrum because he can't have a cookie, he
is demonstrating that he has not yet developed - ✔✔self-regulation.
✔✔Which coping style is associated with "doing" and "getting things done"? - ✔✔Active
, ✔✔Which method of socialization involves feeling or emotions such love, anger, fear, or
disgust? - ✔✔Affective
✔✔Which orientation emphasizes affiliation, cooperation, and interpersonal relations? -
✔✔Collectivist
✔✔Which socializing agent bears the major responsibility for socializing the child? -
✔✔The family
✔✔Which socializing agent has the purpose to perpetuate society's knowledge, skills,
customs, and beliefs? - ✔✔the school
✔✔According to your text, the technical definition of marriage is which of the following?
- ✔✔A legal contract with certain rights and obligations
✔✔Because of the changing nature of families, the U.S. Bureau of the Census no
longer provides statistics on the number of children residing in - ✔✔stepfamilies.
✔✔Caring and involvement towards one another is an example of which function of the
family? - ✔✔Nurturance/emotional support
✔✔Compares to research examining single-parent mother,________research has been
done on children being raised by single-parent fathers. - ✔✔little
✔✔Economic changes such as downsizing and layoffs are likely to result in -
✔✔increased parental stress.
✔✔Empowerment refers to - ✔✔enabling individuals to have control over resources
affecting them.
✔✔Great Britain's royal family is an example of a(n)______family. - ✔✔Matriarchal
✔✔In which step family would we expect to see children with the most behavior
problems? - ✔✔Step family with children from both mom's previous marriage and dad's
previous marriage
✔✔Increasing numbers of children are being raised by relatives other than their parents.
The most common of these arrangements is children being raised by -
✔✔Grandparents.
