SOCI 1311 UTA - EXAM 2 DOROTHY KALANZI QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
2025/2026
Socialization - Answers the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human
potential and learn culture
personality - Answers a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking and feeling
foundation of personality - Answers social experience
Behaviorism - Answers a theory by John Watson which holds that behavior is not instinctive but
learned
Harry and Margaret Harlow - Answers Researchers known for their controversial experiments
with monkeys in which they showed that baby monkeys are drawn to mothers that provide
comfort rather than simply food. Also showed that monkeys raised in isolation developed
severe mental and social deficits
Anna - Answers isolated child found at the age of 5. mentally damaged and died at 10.
isabelle - Answers was rescued at 6.5 yrs old, within a couple years managed to catch up with
members of her age group because of intensive learning programs
genie - Answers A girl who was locked up for 13 years and when she was found, she had missed
the critical period where she could have learned language so she could not speak and was
extremely socially retarded.
Sigmund Freud's basic human needs - Answers eros and thanatos
eros - Answers life instinct - sexual and emotional bonding
thanatos - Answers death instinct - aggressive drive
Freud's Model (elements) of Personality - Answers id, ego, superego
id - Answers the human being's basic drives - unconscious and demand immediate satisfaction
- rooted in biology e.g. a child's need for attention and touching - opposed by society
ego - Answers a person's conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with the
demands of society - can't have everything we want
superego - Answers the cultural values and norms internalized by an individual - conscience -
why we can't have everything we want
culture, in the form of superego - Answers represses selfish demands
sublimation - Answers redirects selfish drives into socially acceptable behavior
, cognition - Answers how people think and understand - Jean Piaget
4 stages of cognitive development - Answers sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete
operational, formal operational
sensorimotor stage - Answers the level of human development at which individuals experience
the world only through their senses
preoperational stage - Answers the level of human development at which individuals first use
language and other symbols - lack abstract concepts
concrete operational stage - Answers the level of human development at which individuals first
see casual connections in their surroundings - how and why things happen
formal operational stage - Answers the level of human development at which individuals think
abstractly and critically
Lawrence Kohlberg studied - Answers moral reasoning - how individuals judge situations as
right or wrong
preconventional level - Answers earliest level of moral development in Kohlberg's theory;
rightness = what feels good to me
conventional level - Answers second level of reasoning in Kohlberg's theory, where moral
reasoning is based on society's norms
postconventional level - Answers highest stage of moral development; at this level, decisions
about morality go beyond societal norms to consider abstract ethical principles
Carol Gilligan's Theory of Gender and Moral Development - Answers compared moral
development of girls and boys and concluded that the twos sexes use different standards of
rightness
according to Gilligan, boys rely on - Answers justice perspective - relying on formal rules to
define right and wrong
according to Gilligan, girls rely on - Answers care and responsibility perspective - judging a
situation with an eye toward personal relationships and loyalties
George Herbert Mead - Answers theory of social behaviorism to explain how social experience
develops an individual's personality
Mead's central concept is - Answers the self - part of an individual's personality composed of
self-awareness and self image
the self is the product of - Answers social experience - not birth
2025/2026
Socialization - Answers the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human
potential and learn culture
personality - Answers a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking and feeling
foundation of personality - Answers social experience
Behaviorism - Answers a theory by John Watson which holds that behavior is not instinctive but
learned
Harry and Margaret Harlow - Answers Researchers known for their controversial experiments
with monkeys in which they showed that baby monkeys are drawn to mothers that provide
comfort rather than simply food. Also showed that monkeys raised in isolation developed
severe mental and social deficits
Anna - Answers isolated child found at the age of 5. mentally damaged and died at 10.
isabelle - Answers was rescued at 6.5 yrs old, within a couple years managed to catch up with
members of her age group because of intensive learning programs
genie - Answers A girl who was locked up for 13 years and when she was found, she had missed
the critical period where she could have learned language so she could not speak and was
extremely socially retarded.
Sigmund Freud's basic human needs - Answers eros and thanatos
eros - Answers life instinct - sexual and emotional bonding
thanatos - Answers death instinct - aggressive drive
Freud's Model (elements) of Personality - Answers id, ego, superego
id - Answers the human being's basic drives - unconscious and demand immediate satisfaction
- rooted in biology e.g. a child's need for attention and touching - opposed by society
ego - Answers a person's conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with the
demands of society - can't have everything we want
superego - Answers the cultural values and norms internalized by an individual - conscience -
why we can't have everything we want
culture, in the form of superego - Answers represses selfish demands
sublimation - Answers redirects selfish drives into socially acceptable behavior
, cognition - Answers how people think and understand - Jean Piaget
4 stages of cognitive development - Answers sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete
operational, formal operational
sensorimotor stage - Answers the level of human development at which individuals experience
the world only through their senses
preoperational stage - Answers the level of human development at which individuals first use
language and other symbols - lack abstract concepts
concrete operational stage - Answers the level of human development at which individuals first
see casual connections in their surroundings - how and why things happen
formal operational stage - Answers the level of human development at which individuals think
abstractly and critically
Lawrence Kohlberg studied - Answers moral reasoning - how individuals judge situations as
right or wrong
preconventional level - Answers earliest level of moral development in Kohlberg's theory;
rightness = what feels good to me
conventional level - Answers second level of reasoning in Kohlberg's theory, where moral
reasoning is based on society's norms
postconventional level - Answers highest stage of moral development; at this level, decisions
about morality go beyond societal norms to consider abstract ethical principles
Carol Gilligan's Theory of Gender and Moral Development - Answers compared moral
development of girls and boys and concluded that the twos sexes use different standards of
rightness
according to Gilligan, boys rely on - Answers justice perspective - relying on formal rules to
define right and wrong
according to Gilligan, girls rely on - Answers care and responsibility perspective - judging a
situation with an eye toward personal relationships and loyalties
George Herbert Mead - Answers theory of social behaviorism to explain how social experience
develops an individual's personality
Mead's central concept is - Answers the self - part of an individual's personality composed of
self-awareness and self image
the self is the product of - Answers social experience - not birth
