SOCIETY THE BASICS EXAM SCRIPT
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
●● a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling
Answer: personality
●● freud's term for the human being's basic drives
Answer: id
●● freud's term for a person's conscious efforts to balance innate
pleasure-seeking drives with the demands of society
Answer: ego
●● freud's term for the cultural values and norms internalized by an
individual
Answer: superego
●● piaget's term for the level of human development at which
individuals experience the world only through their senses
Answer: sensorimotor stage
●● piaget's term for the level of human development at which
individuals first use language and other symbols
, Answer: preoperational stage
●● piaget's term for the level of human development at which
individuals first see causal connections in their surroundings
Answer: concrete operational stage
●● piaget's term for the level of human development at which
individuals think abstractly and critically
Answer: formal operational stage
●● George Herbert Mead's term for the part of an individual's
personality composed of self-awareness and self-image
Answer: self
●● cooley's term for a self-image based on how we think others see us
Answer: looking-glass self
●● people, such as parents, who have special importance for
socialization
Answer: significant others
●● George Herbert Mead's term for widespread cultural norms and
values we use as references in evaluating ourselves
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
●● a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling
Answer: personality
●● freud's term for the human being's basic drives
Answer: id
●● freud's term for a person's conscious efforts to balance innate
pleasure-seeking drives with the demands of society
Answer: ego
●● freud's term for the cultural values and norms internalized by an
individual
Answer: superego
●● piaget's term for the level of human development at which
individuals experience the world only through their senses
Answer: sensorimotor stage
●● piaget's term for the level of human development at which
individuals first use language and other symbols
, Answer: preoperational stage
●● piaget's term for the level of human development at which
individuals first see causal connections in their surroundings
Answer: concrete operational stage
●● piaget's term for the level of human development at which
individuals think abstractly and critically
Answer: formal operational stage
●● George Herbert Mead's term for the part of an individual's
personality composed of self-awareness and self-image
Answer: self
●● cooley's term for a self-image based on how we think others see us
Answer: looking-glass self
●● people, such as parents, who have special importance for
socialization
Answer: significant others
●● George Herbert Mead's term for widespread cultural norms and
values we use as references in evaluating ourselves
