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College Psychology
Characteristics of adolescents age 13 to 18 years include:
  1. resenting being spoken to as if still a child
  2. seeing the world from their own perspective only
  3. being scared and believing that what has happened is their own fault
  4. being distrustful and uncooperative
College Sociology
Survival of the fittest was coined by               
  1. Karl Marx
  2. Herbert Spencer
  3. Marx Weber
  4. Jane Addams
College Psychology
The process of introspection is most associated with the                   model of mind.
  1. psychological
  2. naive
  3. behavioral
  4. bio-psychological
College Psychology
In the terms used by your lecture, a view of mind which emphasizes concepts or theories about mental processes which explain people's behavior in terms of their past or present environmental stimuli is a
  1. psychological or behavioral view
  2. naive view
  3. biopsychological view
  4. ontological view
College Psychology
In the legal definition of insanity, the person must have a mental disease that                                                        .
  1. causes him or her to hear voices
  2. makes it impossible to tell right from wrong
  3. makes him or her too anxious to control their impulses
  4. resembls a schizophrenic process
College Psychology
Which of the following attributes was NOT included in the various criteria for normal behavior discussed in class
  1. efficient perception of reality
  2. acceptance by society
  3. reasonable control of impulses
  4. ability to be productive
  5. ability to have gratifying relationships
College Sociology
Which sociologist focused on suicide?
  1. Karl Marx
  2. Emile Durkheim
  3. W.E.B Dubois
  4. Charles Horton Cooley
College Sociology
                   is a state of relative normlessness that comes from the disintegration of our routines and regulations.
  1. social integration
  2. anomie
  3. social facts
  4. secular forms
College Sociology
"applied to classes within society and that the wealthy aristocrats were the fittest and so they survived and prospered in society"
  1. laissez-faire
  2. survival of the fittest
  3. symbolic interactionsim
  4. social classes
College Psychology
Which term below best describes Rene Descartes' view of the relation between a person's mind and body?
  1. Animistic
  2. Monistic
  3. Dualistic
  4. Generalistic
College Sociology
                   is the phenomena within society that typically exist independent of individual choices and actions.
  1. social integration
  2. anomie
  3. social facts
  4. secular forms
College Sociology
Durkheim's two core sociological concepts were                                    and                                    
  1. social intergration and anomie
  2. looking glass self and social facts
College Sociology
"People learn honesty through partipation in the family, church, community and government" is an example of which sociologist's view?
  1. Herbert Spencer
  2. Adam Smith
  3. Jane Addams
  4. W.E.B Dubios
College Psychology
An explanation of behavior in terms of its ULTIMATE CAUSES involves explaining it in terms of:
  1. past experience
  2. evolutionary processes
  3. biology
  4. religious or philosophical principles
College Psychology
Properties of whole which cannot be found in the parts which make up that whole are called:
  1. emergent properties
  2. transcendent properties
  3. wholistic properties
  4. None of these answers is correct.Such properties do not really exist at all.
College Psychology
Explaining mind in terms of brain function is an example of explanation by:
  1. reduction
  2. example
  3. generalization
  4. synthesis
College Psychology
Psychology is the              Scientific              study of            Behavior            and          Mental          processes.
College Social Sciences
In billions, which is the closest of these figures to the population of the earth today?
  1. 9 billion
  2. 6.5 billion
  3. 2 billion
  4. 5.6 billion
  5. None of the above
College Social Sciences
Nearly 10 times as many children who live with only their mothers live in poverty.
  1. True
  2. False
College Social Sciences
An increasing number of children are being raised by single parents.
  1. True
  2. False
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