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  • A. it does not include childless families
  • B. it does not include same- sex families
  • C. it does not include extended family
  • D. all of the aboveFamily

Explanation: The idea of one universal family model excludes important variations, including childless families, same-sex families, and extended-family…

Correct answer: all of the aboveFamily
  • A. researcher's discretion regarding the subject matter
  • B. status of the behavior in the system of moral stratification
  • C. general attitude of lawmakers
  • D. None of theseMental Health

Explanation: The subjective dimension of deviance concerns how conduct is judged within a society’s moral system, rather than merely how unusual or…

Correct answer: status of the behavior in the system of moral stratification
  • A. criminal acts performed by people
  • B. statistical rarity
  • C. behaviors and conditions that are related to social control
  • D. None of these

Explanation: In sociology, deviance is defined in relation to social norms and social control, not simply as crime or statistical unusualness.

Correct answer: behaviors and conditions that are related to social control
  • A. Sociology
  • B. Biology
  • C. Political science
  • D. PsychologySocial Sciences

Explanation: Sociology studies social problems at the population and institutional level, using statistics such as prevalence and incidence to show how…

Correct answer: Sociology
  • A. similarities
  • B. differences
  • C. parallels
  • D. hierarchies

Explanation: Cultural comparisons commonly draw attention to differences in values, norms, communication, and behaviour.

Correct answer: differences
  • A. Patriachy, gender and exploitation
  • B. Capitalists, bourgeoisie, and means of production
  • C. Self concepts, meaning and flexibility
  • D. Functions, structure, and value consensus

Explanation: Feminism examines patriarchy, gender inequality, and the exploitation or unequal treatment of women and other gender groups.

Correct answer: Patriachy, gender and exploitation
  • A. Social change
  • B. Stigma
  • C. Status group
  • D. None of these

Explanation: A stigma is a socially discrediting label or mark that devalues a person or group, often because they are seen as deviant.

Correct answer: Stigma
  • A. Social change
  • B. Status group
  • C. Vertical mobility
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Weber used status group for people who share a similar level of social prestige, honour, or lifestyle, regardless of their economic class.

Correct answer: Status group
  • A. were ordered to give consistently wrong answers to simples
  • B. were ordered to deliver painful electric shocks to stranger
  • C. indicated which of three lines matched a "standard line" in length
  • D. became the recipients of painful electric shocks delivered by an experimental accompliceTry Prep Courses

Explanation: Asch's conformity experiment used a line-judgment task in which participants identified which of three comparison lines matched a standard…

Correct answer: indicated which of three lines matched a "standard line" in length
  • A. Consensus
  • B. Consistency
  • C. Distinctiveness
  • D. Cooperation

Explanation: Kelly's covariation model uses consensus, consistency, and distinctiveness to explain how people make attributions.

Correct answer: Cooperation
  • A. Counselling
  • B. Clinical
  • C. Personality
  • D. Social

Explanation: Social psychology examines how people’s thoughts, motives, perceptions, and behaviour are shaped by the actual or imagined presence and…

Correct answer: Social
  • A. large; small
  • B. small; large
  • C. large; large
  • D. large; largerEnroll In Courses

Explanation: The foot-in-the-door technique begins with a small request that a person is likely to accept, followed by a larger request later.

Correct answer: small; large
  • A. understand, predict, and control
  • B. understand, feel about, and behave toward
  • C. think about, influence, and related to
  • D. observe, understand, and communicate with

Explanation: Social psychology is commonly defined as the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another.

Correct answer: think about, influence, and related to
  • A. Learned attitude
  • B. Open- mindedness
  • C. Negative feelings
  • D. Justification of beliefs

Explanation: Prejudice is a learned, usually negative attitude involving feelings and beliefs about a social group.

Correct answer: Open- mindedness
  • A. social
  • B. comparative
  • C. physiological
  • D. school

Explanation: Peer influence concerns how other people and groups affect an individual's attitudes, decisions, and behavior, which is the focus of…

Correct answer: social
  • A. learning
  • B. cultural
  • C. developmetnal
  • D. cognitive

Explanation: Cultural psychology studies how culture and regional social settings shape family relationships and individual behavior.

Correct answer: cultural
  • A. Role schemes
  • B. Person schemas
  • C. Actor-observer effects
  • D. Stereotypes
  • E. BiasesTry Prep Courses

Explanation: Stereotypes are socially shared beliefs about the traits and behaviors of members of a social group.

Correct answer: Stereotypes
  • A. This strength of the self-serving bias is the same across cultures
  • B. We tend to attribute our success to internal factors and our failure to external factors
  • C. The usual explanation for the self-serving bias relates to cognitive factors.
  • D. Attributing success to external causes has been referred has been referred to as the self-enhancing bias.

Explanation: Self-serving bias means crediting personal success to internal qualities while explaining failure through external circumstances.

Correct answer: We tend to attribute our success to internal factors and our failure to external factors
  • A. Schemas preserve cognitive resources
  • B. Schemas facilitate recall of information
  • C. Schemas are based on exopectations and prior experience
  • D. Schemas can cue emotions
  • E. All of the above

Explanation: Schemas organize social information efficiently, guide expectations from prior experience, improve memory for schema-consistent material…

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Well development schemas change readily when faced with disconfirming evidence.
  • B. The idea of exceptions to the rule is consistent with the sub-typing model model of stereotype change.
  • C. In the book-keeping model disconfirming instances of the stereotype are relegated to 'exceptional' sub-categories largely intact.
  • D. The conversion model proposes that there is fine-tuning of a schema with each new piece of information.

Explanation: The subtyping model explains stereotype resistance by placing disconfirming individuals into an exception category rather than changing…

Correct answer: The idea of exceptions to the rule is consistent with the sub-typing model model of stereotype change.