WGU C273 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY EXAM 2024
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 250 QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT
ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED A+
1. Why is nature versus nurture called a false debate?
a. Human beings dominate nature, as confirmed by the worlds great religious texts
b. Biology creates adaptive challenges that humans solve using innate intelligence
c. No one can be sure what the mysteries of genes are or how they influence
emotions
d. Culture or nurture directs social behavior that is influenced by biological factors
e. Watson was proved completely wrong by Gould - ANSWER: d. Culture or nurture
directs social behavior that is influenced by biological factor
2. The process of social interaction that teaches a child the intellectual, physical, and
social skills needed to function as a member of society is called
a. identification
b. social adjustment
c. socialization
d. social conditioning
e. human modeling - ANSWER: c. socialization
3. Inherited units of biological material are called:
a. instincts
b. socialization
c. personality
d. genes
e. outward self - ANSWER: d. genes
4. Adult socialization differs from primary socialization in that adults
a. are generally immune to the process of socialization
b. usually are hostile to socialization attempts
c. often have more control over how they wish to be socialized
d. are more likely to be influenced by their peers
e. know more, hence needs less socialization - ANSWER: c. often have more control
over how they wish to be socialized
5. Sociobiologists study:
a. biological principles to explain the behavior of all social beings
b. the cultural basis of human behavior
c. deviations in social behavior
d. the effects of nutrition on human development
e. the relationship between environment and personal growth - ANSWER: a.
biological principles to explain the behavior of all social beings
,6. As a result of Jean-Marc Itard's treatment program, the wild boy from Averyon:
a. learned to become an average, well-adjusted young man named Victor
b. died suddenly at age fourteen
c. turned out perfectly normal except for the inability to do arithmetic
d. learned to wear clothes and write a few simple words, but developed no human
relationships
e. learned to do wear clothes and drive an automobile, but never learned human
speech - ANSWER: d. learned to wear clothes and write a few simple words, but
developed no human relationships
7. In his experiments with monkeys raised in isolation, Harry Harlow found that these
monkeys:
a. always preferred the imitation mother that gave them food
b. preferred a soft cloth imitation mother with no food over a hard wire "mother"
with food
c. learned how to mate through instinct
d. eventually learned to be good mothers themselves
e. developed more quickly if the dolls were given tape recorded monkey emotions. -
ANSWER: b. preferred a soft cloth imitation mother with no food over a hard wire
"mother" with food
8. Why are infants and young children raised in institutions slow to develop?
a. They are frequently malnourished
b. They lack culture
c. They usually have serious cognitive and social deficits to begin with
d. they are intimidated by pressure from their peers
e. They never get the same "quality" or diet that "normal" children receive -
ANSWER: b. They lack culture
9. The identity obtained by occupying culturally and socially defined positions is
called a:
a. self
b. status
c. social identity
d. personal identity
e. cultural identity - ANSWER: c. social identity
10. The changing yet enduring personal identity is called the
a. social identity
b. situational identity
c. social relation
d. self
e. social personality - ANSWER: d. self
11. Observers argue that media plays a socializing role on children that emphasizes:
a. ideas about negotiation, cooperation, and abstractions like infinity, freedom and
justice
, b. positively valuing violence to solve problems in a hostile world
c. developing a popular identity and entering into mature relationships
d. cash exchanges over cultural traditions like honor, violence and romance -
ANSWER: b. positively valuing violence to solve problems in a hostile world
12. A society's shared view of right and wrong is called its:
a. moral order
b. cognitive order
c. formal logical stage
d. operational stage
e. intuitive stage - ANSWER: a. moral order
13. Stephen Jay Gould challenged the equation of behavior with genetic biology:
looking at altruistic behavior, he saw:
a. variations in cognitive capacities
b. cognitive development stages
c. how people adopt a cultural traits in social and material environments
d. stage schemes of moral development - ANSWER: c. how people adopt a cultural
traits in social and material environments
14, Patterns of behavior and way of thinking and feeling that are distinctive for each
individual constitute the individual's:
a. personality
b. nature
c. instincts
d. social orientations
e. outward self - ANSWER: a. personality
15. When someone loses his or her job, this also means the loss of:
a. the social mirror of society
b. problem solving that helps stage development
c. a social identity many people find central to self esteem
d. moral reasoning in primary social groups
e. the process of socialization - ANSWER: c. a social identity many people find central
to self esteem
16. Total institutions are associated with which process?
a. societies general belief systems such as religion
b. primary institutions that shape children's personalities such as the family
c. education over the life course and how schools contradict family
d. resocialization in places like the military and prison that isolate and shape
individuals - ANSWER: d. resocialization in places like the military and prison that
isolate and shape individuals
17. Sociologist describe the process of two or more people taking each others
actions into account as:
a. verstehen
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 250 QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT
ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED A+
1. Why is nature versus nurture called a false debate?
a. Human beings dominate nature, as confirmed by the worlds great religious texts
b. Biology creates adaptive challenges that humans solve using innate intelligence
c. No one can be sure what the mysteries of genes are or how they influence
emotions
d. Culture or nurture directs social behavior that is influenced by biological factors
e. Watson was proved completely wrong by Gould - ANSWER: d. Culture or nurture
directs social behavior that is influenced by biological factor
2. The process of social interaction that teaches a child the intellectual, physical, and
social skills needed to function as a member of society is called
a. identification
b. social adjustment
c. socialization
d. social conditioning
e. human modeling - ANSWER: c. socialization
3. Inherited units of biological material are called:
a. instincts
b. socialization
c. personality
d. genes
e. outward self - ANSWER: d. genes
4. Adult socialization differs from primary socialization in that adults
a. are generally immune to the process of socialization
b. usually are hostile to socialization attempts
c. often have more control over how they wish to be socialized
d. are more likely to be influenced by their peers
e. know more, hence needs less socialization - ANSWER: c. often have more control
over how they wish to be socialized
5. Sociobiologists study:
a. biological principles to explain the behavior of all social beings
b. the cultural basis of human behavior
c. deviations in social behavior
d. the effects of nutrition on human development
e. the relationship between environment and personal growth - ANSWER: a.
biological principles to explain the behavior of all social beings
,6. As a result of Jean-Marc Itard's treatment program, the wild boy from Averyon:
a. learned to become an average, well-adjusted young man named Victor
b. died suddenly at age fourteen
c. turned out perfectly normal except for the inability to do arithmetic
d. learned to wear clothes and write a few simple words, but developed no human
relationships
e. learned to do wear clothes and drive an automobile, but never learned human
speech - ANSWER: d. learned to wear clothes and write a few simple words, but
developed no human relationships
7. In his experiments with monkeys raised in isolation, Harry Harlow found that these
monkeys:
a. always preferred the imitation mother that gave them food
b. preferred a soft cloth imitation mother with no food over a hard wire "mother"
with food
c. learned how to mate through instinct
d. eventually learned to be good mothers themselves
e. developed more quickly if the dolls were given tape recorded monkey emotions. -
ANSWER: b. preferred a soft cloth imitation mother with no food over a hard wire
"mother" with food
8. Why are infants and young children raised in institutions slow to develop?
a. They are frequently malnourished
b. They lack culture
c. They usually have serious cognitive and social deficits to begin with
d. they are intimidated by pressure from their peers
e. They never get the same "quality" or diet that "normal" children receive -
ANSWER: b. They lack culture
9. The identity obtained by occupying culturally and socially defined positions is
called a:
a. self
b. status
c. social identity
d. personal identity
e. cultural identity - ANSWER: c. social identity
10. The changing yet enduring personal identity is called the
a. social identity
b. situational identity
c. social relation
d. self
e. social personality - ANSWER: d. self
11. Observers argue that media plays a socializing role on children that emphasizes:
a. ideas about negotiation, cooperation, and abstractions like infinity, freedom and
justice
, b. positively valuing violence to solve problems in a hostile world
c. developing a popular identity and entering into mature relationships
d. cash exchanges over cultural traditions like honor, violence and romance -
ANSWER: b. positively valuing violence to solve problems in a hostile world
12. A society's shared view of right and wrong is called its:
a. moral order
b. cognitive order
c. formal logical stage
d. operational stage
e. intuitive stage - ANSWER: a. moral order
13. Stephen Jay Gould challenged the equation of behavior with genetic biology:
looking at altruistic behavior, he saw:
a. variations in cognitive capacities
b. cognitive development stages
c. how people adopt a cultural traits in social and material environments
d. stage schemes of moral development - ANSWER: c. how people adopt a cultural
traits in social and material environments
14, Patterns of behavior and way of thinking and feeling that are distinctive for each
individual constitute the individual's:
a. personality
b. nature
c. instincts
d. social orientations
e. outward self - ANSWER: a. personality
15. When someone loses his or her job, this also means the loss of:
a. the social mirror of society
b. problem solving that helps stage development
c. a social identity many people find central to self esteem
d. moral reasoning in primary social groups
e. the process of socialization - ANSWER: c. a social identity many people find central
to self esteem
16. Total institutions are associated with which process?
a. societies general belief systems such as religion
b. primary institutions that shape children's personalities such as the family
c. education over the life course and how schools contradict family
d. resocialization in places like the military and prison that isolate and shape
individuals - ANSWER: d. resocialization in places like the military and prison that
isolate and shape individuals
17. Sociologist describe the process of two or more people taking each others
actions into account as:
a. verstehen
