Test 2 Question 1

Culture is the total pattern of human behavior and its products embodied in:

A) speech

B) action

C) artifacts

D) thought

E) all of the above (answer)

Test 2 Question 2

Contemporary American culture is

a blending of overlapping cultures representing a wide variety of people

Test 2 Question 3

Conventions are:

everyday customs or usual ways of behaving

Test 2 Question 4

The degree to which a culture is internally consistent and homogeneous is called:

cultural integration

Test 2 Question 5

Today the rate of technological change is increasing:

and so is the interaction among cultures

Test 2 Question 6

Technological development begins:

with discovery and invention

Test 2 Question 7

An organized system of ideas for remodeling society is called:

an ideology

Test 2 Question 8

Ways of behaving that have been learned so well that they can be carried on without conscious attention are called:

habits

Test 2 Question 9

Different cultures change or evolve

along quite different paths

Test 2 Question 10

The doctrine that all cultures are for the most part equally valid is called:

Cultural relativism

Test 2 Question 11

The study of the number and characteristics of a population is called:

demography

Test 2 Question 12

Birthrate and death rate are:

Key determinants of population

Test 2 Question 13

World population has grown rapidly since the 1800's because:

the death rate has declined

Test 2 Question 14

Malthus suggested that further increase in population would be prevented by:

A) disease

B) war

C) malnutrition

D) famine

E) All of the above (answer)

Test 2 Question 15

Individual success depends on:

both social environment and biological inheritance

Test 2 Question 16

The elements in our sorroundings that are human or of human origin are called:

the social environment

Test 2 Question 17

The science concerned with interaction between living things and their environment is called:

Ecology

Test 2 Question 18

Human ecology applies some of the findings of:

the biological science to the problems of social science

Test 2 Question 19

Some pollution is an inevitable consequence of production, presenting society with a:

Tradeoff involving both costs and benefits

Test 2 Question 20

Environmental issues:

involve both national and international dimensions

Test 2 Question 21

Early factories gave people:

A) a better chance of survival

B) more opportunities to earn

C) changed patterns of domestic life

D) crowded towns and cities

E) All of the above (answer)

Test 2 Question 22

The production of uniform, subtitutable parts is called:

Standardization

Test 2 Question 23

Interchangeability and mass production in an assembly line:

decreased the price of a car in the 1920's

Test 2 Question 24

Technological development has also created many problems including:

A) health hazards (occupational)

B) pollution

C) disruption of domestic life

D) crowded town and cities

E) all of the above (answer)

Test 2 Question 25

Technology also affects traditional societies in all of the following ways except:

making people worse off materially

Test 2 Question 26

What is an example of cyber crime?

A) cyber stalking by Internet predators

B) illegal transfers of money

C) identity theft

D) all of the above are cyber crimes (answer)

Test 2 Question 27

Not needed

Not needed

Test 2 Question 28

A growing domestic market, plentiful raw materials, and scarcity of labor all favored American (U.S.A.):

Industrialization

Test 2 Question 29

Modern civilization as we know it could not have developed without:

its technological base

Test 2 Question 30

Potential technological developments in the future:

are limited only by the imagination

Test 2 Question 31

Culture's role in shaping individual personality is:

major

Test 2 Question 32

The study of children who have been laregely isolated demonstrates the importance of:

socialization

Test 2 Question 33

Personality bears the imprint of:

A) the culture of the individual's society

B) the inherited potentialities of the individual

C) Unique personal experience

D) natural environment

E) All of the above (answer)

Test 2 Question 34

Do not need

Do not need

Test 2 Question 35

The humanist approach emphasizes:

the entire person

Test 2 Question 36

Freud originated a system of:

psychotheraphy knows as psychoanalysis

Test 2 Question 37

Recent discussions of the nature/nurture debate have tended to emphasize the:

complex interaction between the two

Test 2 Question 38

Abraham Maslow's hierarchy states that each level:

must be satisfied before the next is attempted.

Test 2 Question 39

IQ tests can be useful, but only if:

their limitations are kept in perspective

Test 2 Question 40

do not need

do not need

Test 2 Question 41

Pluralism allows subgroups to revere their own history and view that history as a strong building block of the larger culture

True

Test 2 Question 42

The United States does not have one single culture

True

Test 2 Question 43

Socialization is the process that shapes the personality of individuals so they can become members of society

True

Test 2 Question 44

Communities are easy to classify on the basis of common characteristics

False

Test 2 Question 45

Birth Control has not been effective in slowing population growth in the United States

True

Test 2 Question 46

The Malthusian theory is the idea that the means of subsistence tends to outrun the growth of population

False

Test 2 Question 47

Techonology is the universe of tools, means, and methods through which we interact with out environment

True

Test 2 Question 48

Technological discoveries and breakthroughs also have social and cultural consequences

True

Test 2 Question 49

Culture is external to the individual and not a part of personality

False

Test 2 Question 50

The nature-nurture debate focuses on whether heredity or environment is more important in determining personality

True