Question: A setting where a staff tries to radically change someone's personality through carefully controlling the environment is called a(n) _______

Answer: a total institution

Question: According to Piaget, in which stage of human development do individuals experience the world only through sensory contact?

Answer: Sensorimotor Stage

Question: Assume you have a business that provides products to older people. Looking ahead, you have reason to expect ________

Answer: increasing sales, because your target population is increasing in size

Question: Based on what you have read in this chapter, how would sociologists explain the fact that many young people in the United States experience adolescence as a time of confusion?

Answer: There are cultural inconsistencies in the definition of this stage of life as partly childlike and partly adult like.

Question: If you were to put together the lesson learned from the cases of Anna, Isabelle, and Genie, you would correctly conclude that _______

Answer: social experience plays a crucial part in forming human personality.

Question: In Mead's model, which sequence correctly orders stages of the developing self?

Answer: Imitation, play, game, generalized other

Question: In the nature versus nurture debate, sociologists claim that _______

Answer: nurture is far more important than nature.

Question: Looking at childhood in global perspective, we find that _______

Answer: rich societies extend childhood much longer than do poor societies.

Question: The concept of "gerontocracy" refers to a society in which ________

Answer: the oldest people have the most wealth, power, and prestige.

Question: Today, the factor people most commonly use in considering a young woman or young man to have reached adulthood is whether or not the person _______

Answer: has completed all schooling

Question: What concept refers to the lifelong social experience by which human beings develop their potential and learn culture?

Answer: socialization

Question: Which theory, developed by the psychologist John B. Watson, claims that human behavior is not instinctive but learned within a social environment?

Answer: behaviorism

Question: When Cooley used the concept of the "looking-glass self," he claimed that _______

Answer: people see themselves as they think others see them.

Question: What is the term sociologists give to a category of people with a common characteristic, usually their age?

Answer: cohort

Question: In her research, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross found that death ________

Answer: is an orderly transition involving specific stages.