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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A The sociocultural factors of violence are deeply rooted in the rapidly changing American social structure and cultural values in the post-modern era.
B The psychological factors of violence derive from dysfunctional or pathological socialization of the deviants in his/her childhood or early adolescents.
C None of the other three
D The biological factors of violence are usually attributed to neurological vulnerability of the individual deviant.
Question #2
A American society is highly vulnerable to deviance and alienation
B American culture ensures a high degree of freedom and creativity
C Japanese seem to be more disciplined and orderly yet less free and creative than Americans.
D Japanese culture is individual centered
Question #3
A It features computer, the internet, and social media
B It constantly challenges traditional norms
C It has yet to replace the old cultural ethos
D It has not reconstructed a new cultural ethos
Question #4
A Anomie remains to be the most significant structural and cultural source of deviance
B Postmodern generation has become increasingly sensitized to the culture of anomie (social fragmentation and existential alienation)
C Anomie is becoming normalized in post moderns society
D Anomie is more prevalent among postmodern societies, particularly among those with a high degree of individualism and a rapid rate of social change.
Question #5
A Deviations from norms in a given society are considered as abnormal and subject to negative sanctions.
B Multi-dimensional concept of normalcy involves statistical, biological, psychological, sociocultural normalcy
C What is normal or abnormal is culturally irrelative
D Deviance is unthinkable without norms
Question #6
A It maintains the most restrictive gun laws in the world
B It has the most open immigratin policies
C It produces the highest homicide rate among the leading postmodern societies
D It has the highest divorce rate in the world
Question #7
A Deviance takes place as part of a labeling process by a social audience.
B Deviance is always manufactured by society, particularly by a powerful group of people
C Deviance is abnormal behavior or norm-violating behavior that transgresses the tolerance limits of a community
Question #8
A Stigma attaching labeling and social rejection/isolation
B Needs for belonging and acceptance, rationalization of deviations, and successful defenses
C entrance to deviant subculture (secondary deviance)
D primary deviance (violation of norms)
Question #9
A Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive
B Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal, Antisocial
C All of the other three
D Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic
Question #10
A Is neither pervasive nor inflexible.
B Does not necessarily lead to distress and impairment
C Is an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture.
D has an onset in adulthood or senior stage.
Question #11
A Identity claim and role play stage
B Social order, fixed rules and authority stage
C Universal ethical principla orientation stage
D Punishment-obedience orientation stage
Question #12
A Peer relations tend to produce pressure to conform to peer norms and expectations.
B American adolescents are more subjected to peer stress than their counterparts in other countries.
C Peer relations are uncorrelated to high school dropout nor teenage suicide.
D Peer relations have the most impact in all outcome behavio measures of adolescents
Question #13
A Rejection of the aggressor’s values and hostility toward the perpetrator.
B The initial shock and feelings of disbelief, and other helplessness and worthlessness.
C The period of denial, apathy and depression.
D Regression into infantile behavior and child-like dependency.
Question #14
A Intelligence increases with age in some dimensions while declining in others.
B Intelligence does not decline with age
C Intelligence declines with age.
D Intelligence declines with age in some dimensions but in other dimensions.
Question #15
A All of the other three
B Each life stage is characterized by a crisis or dilemma
C the various life stages are not equal in length, depending on cultural and individual differences.
D The positive and negative components of each stage are mutually exclusive
Question #16
A The consistency theory asserts that personality changes consistently and persistently throughout adulthood.
B Schaefer’s hypothetical model for maternal behavior consists of two bipolar dimensions of mother’s attitudes and disciplinary behavior: love versus hostility and control versus autonomy.
C The phenomenon of adolescence is a by-product of industrialization and concomitant of sociocultural changes in the modern world.
D Accordig to Dimsdale, effective coping strategies are functionally interlinked in order of relative importance, forming a hierarchy of functional coping strategies for mitigating the impact of stress under extreme conditions.
Question #17
A Life-stage theories generally contend that personality develops through a certain pattern of sequential age-linked stages that are more or less universal.
B The life-span approach emphasizes the interaction of individual and social characteristics throughout the life span.
C Life-course views focus on age-graded norms, generation effects, role transitions, and historical context on personality development
D None of the other three.
Question #18
A All of the other three
B Charismatic leadership and her worship
C Counter, delinquent, and mainstream values and norms.
D In-group ingo or argot and unique styles of fads
Question #19
A Prisons
B Hospitals
C Slavery
D POW camps
Question #20
A Post-trauma onset of symptoms
B Re-expereince of the trauma
C Numbing of responsiveness
D Activation of defense.
Question #21
A A vertical social structure and a traditon of filial piety can counteract the impact of modernization on the care of the elderly in a given society.
B The higher th degree of modernizatio, the lower the degree of social status and integration of the elderly in a given society.
C An increasing number of older people prefer to live separately from their adult children
D More and more people realize that successful aging means to stay healthy, economically secure, and socially active.
Question #22
A Poverty and violence in inner American cities
B American wives’ extensive participation in the workforce
C Social acceptance of divorce in America
D Liberalization of divorce law
Question #23
A School
B Family
C Social activities
D Peers
Question #24
A Inner-biological
B Cultural-sociological
C Change-dialectical
D Outer-physical
Question #25
A A collective superiority over childhood
B The primary group need satisfaction
C A collective protection from adult controls.
D A sense of collective identity
Question #26
A Engagement Theory.
B Activity theory
C Disengagement theory
D Role change theory
Question #27
A Withdrawal from active roles and social interactions in old age.
B A resurgence in creativity in the later years of life.
C continued engagement in role activities by old people.
D A decline in mental functions among the elderly.
Question #28
A From the stage of concrete intellectual operations to the stage of abstract operations.
B From the reflex or hereditary stage to the state of the first motor habits.
C From the stage of the first differential emotions to the stage of the first external affective fixations
D From the stage of intuitive intelligence to the stage of practical intelligence
Question #29
A Father absence in the first two years of infancy is critical and may lead to feminine orientation in boys.
B Father absence caused by divorce have more severe consequences than that caused by death
C Father-absent girls are more aggressive and exposed to sexual experiences at an earlier age than father-present girls
D Father absence is associated with a decrease in verbal abilities and writing skills in children
Question #30
A The integrated
B The unintegrated
C The passive-dependent
D The armored-defended
Question #31
A Quantitative and qualitative changes
B Direction of change from simple to complex
C Critical age and experience
D Inconsistency and non-cumulative influence
Question #32
A Experience a transition in his or her occupational role
B Make certain key choices and pursue his or her goals within a formed structure.
C Shift from one life structure to another
D Experience a transformation in marital life
Question #33
A Maturational determinism
B Invariant order of developmental changes
C Staged changes throughout the lifespan
D Over-generalization from Western experiences
Question #34
A Heavy workloads, tight deadlines, and underutilization of abilities
B Psychological withdrawal, time-out activities, and hiding behind policy rules
C Health and safety hazars, the threat of unemployment, and job insecurity
D high levels of role ambiguity or conflict and lack of participation in decision making
Question #35
A The pseudo-developed man path.
B The midlife crisis path
C The transcendent-generative path
D The punitive-disenchanted path
Question #36
A Rapid social cultural changes
B Adolescents’ stressful life events
C Physiological and psychological differences
D Different rates of socialization
Question #37
A Natural disasters such as earthquakes and epidemics.
B Both natural and man-made disasters
C Neither natural nor man-made disasters
D Man-made disasters such as total institutions and hostage cries
Question #38
A Age and gender discriminations
B Age and racial discriminations
C All of the three
D Age and ethnic discriminations
Question #39
A Personality disorder of mother-absent children are linked with broken homes not because of the mother absence per se but rather because of the discord and disharmony which led to the break
B Individual differences in response to deprivation need to be emphasized as many children are not affected by mother deprivation
C Some deprivation effects are reversible, depending on timing, duration and intensity of deprivation
D “Maternal deprivation” is too heterogenous and the effects are too varied for any meaningful analysis
Question #40
A Peers
B Teachers
C Adolescents
D Parents
Question #41
A Normalized anomie and violence
B Institutionalied oppression
C All of the other three
D Rationalized terrorism
Question #42
A Role attrition
B Role withdrawal
C Role substitution
D Role continuity
Question #43
A Differential focus on the good, survival for some purpose, psychological withdrawal, mastery, and group affiliation
B The will to live, the mobilization of hope, regressive behavior, surrender to stress, and fatalism
C Mastery, denial, psychological removal, regression, and depndency/identification
D Ineffectualization, belief in mortality, time distortion, a sense of humor, and the Musselman-type apathy.
Question #44
A Intelligence decreases with family size, the fewer the children in your family, the smarter you are likely to be. Intelligence also decreases with birth order, the fewer older brothers or sisters you have, the brighter you are likely to be.
B The later born is more extroverted, sociable, empathetic and risk-taking than the first born.
C Intelligence is not necessarily a product of how many brothers and sisters you have, and of your seniority in the family.
D Intelligences increases with family size, and the more children in your family, the smarter you are likely to be. Intelligence also increase with birth order, the more older brothers or sisters you have, the brighter you are likely to be.
Question #45
A Life is simple and controllable. There are no significant coexisting contradictory foces within me.
B Rewards will come automatically if we do what were supposed to do
C I’ll always belong to my parents and believe in their world
D There is no evil or death in the world. The sinister has been destroyed
Question #46
A Attachment/separateness
B masculine/feminine
C Destruction/creation
D Physical growth/decline
Question #47
A Regressive behavior
B Null coping
C Anticoping
D Psychological removal
Question #48
A Parental hostility in combination with restrictiveness
B Inconsistency in parental behavior
C Age, gender, and birth order of the child
D Cultural differences in gender role and parenting
Question #49
A Insensitivity toward the future
B Social avoidance and withdrawal
C Fear of rejection
D Identity ambivalence