Quiz for Chapter 7
Multiple Choice Questions
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1. From which colleague did Mead adopt the idea of the looking glass self?
a) Dewey
b) Bloomer
c) Cooley
d) Wundt
Answer: C (Page 171)
2. What did Mead use as an example of a significant gesture?
a) infant maturation
b) shouting 'Fire!' in a theatre
c) a feeling of empathy
d) making an adjusted response
Answer: B (Page 173)
3. Mind allows the individual to ________.
a) attribute significance to lower interpretive frameworks
b) understand gestures beyond significant symbols
c) turn reflexive responses into significant symbols
dd) temporarily suspend her response to significant symbols
Answer: D (Page 174)
4. The self emerges out of the individual's capacity to use ________.
a) Broca's area in the left hemisphere
b) language
c) neuro-linguistic utterances
d) identity management
Answer: B (Page 174)
5. What framework emerges when humans interact with each other via stabilized social relations?
a) culture
b) language
c) society
d) self
Answer: C (Page 179)
True or False Questions
1. For Mead, the acquisition of language follows mind, in that consciousness must precede communication
Answer: False (Page 174)
2. The last of three developmental stages of the self is the game stage.
Answer: False (Page 175)
3. Primary groups are human associations characterized by intimate face-to-face co-operation.
Answer: True (Page 172)
4. Mead argued that society is fixed and immutable.
Answer: False (Page 179)
5. Mead believed that communication involves both simple gestures and the use of significant gestures that hold the same meaning for all participants in a conversation.
Answer: True (Page 173)
Fill in the Blank Questions
1. The acquisition of language makes ________ possible.
Answer: mind (Page 174)
2. Depending on the social context, different ________ selves are presented to different audiences.
Answer: elementary (Page 175)
3. Mead associated the 'I' with creative, spontaneous, and ________ behaviour.
Answer: impulsive (Page 176)
4. Mead accepted one of the most general principles of ________, that all behaviours are learned.
Answer: behaviourism (Page 168)
5. Cooley argued that humans recognize the gestures of others; they use those gestures as a ________ to form in their imaginations an image of how they are perceived and judged by others.
Answer: looking glass (Page 171)
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Mead distinguish between simple gestures and the use of significant gestures or symbols?
Answer: Simple gestures involve response and adjustment to exchange without deliberation. Significant gestures on the other hand have the same meaning for all participants in a conversation of gestures, and are the basis for human language.
2. What is the relationship between the two phases of the self: the 'I' and the 'Me'?
Answer: The 'I', according to Mead, is present-tense, spontaneous, and reactionary, while the "Me" is past-tense, reflective, and evaluative from the standpoint of others. The self is made up of a constant alternation between by these two elements.
3. How does a society emerge according to Mead?
Answer: Society, for Mead, refers to the stabilized framework that emerges when humans take on the perspective of the generalized other by making use of the significant gestures of others to build and revise their mind and self