Psychology Important Belief in The Armenian Culture Questions

1) Socialization. [Total=34]

a) Identify your culture, and give an example of an important belief, value, and norm [4]. 

b) Describe yourself in terms of Erikson’s developmental stages. [12] 

c) Using Kohlberg’s model ofmoral development, why would you decide not to cheat onthis assignment? [6]

d) Give examples of instrumental conditioning, and of observational learning that you have experienced regarding your own behavior in high school (note the nature of the rewards/punishments). [8]

e) Describe your most significant others, and how they blend (or are integrated into) your current generalized other (community of attitudes). [4] 

2) Life Course.[Total=36] 

a) Identify and describe the life course stages through which you have passed and now occupy. [4] 

b) What status transitions or rites of passage distinguish each stage for you? [4]

c) Which contexts or agents of socialization would you identify as being most important to you during each stage? [4]

d) Give an exampleof anticipatory and reverse socialization in your life [4].  

e) Now, speculate on how these transitions and agents might have differed had you been a different gender. [8]

f) Identify some examples and effects of social class socialization in your life (eg., values associated with education, work/occupations, etc.). [8]

g) To what extent do you engage in role-making versus role-taking (give an example)?  [4]  

(continued next page) 3) Self, Identity, and Self-Presentation. [Total = 30]

a) Complete Box 4.1 in your text.  NOTE: you do not need to include the actual list – the primary purpose is to analyze it.  Are your descriptors primarily role or dispositional identities? [4]  What does this suggest about your identity? [4]

b) Make a list of the ten terms a best friend or family member would use to describe you,and then obtain the ten words that person actually uses.  Compare the lists, focusing on the difference between self-perception and reflected appraisals; how do they differ? [4] to what extent arethe differences a result of something about you (E.g., differences in the way you behave toward these others), and differences about these people (E.g., their different personalities)? [8] 

c) Would a job interview most likely consist of authentic, ideal,ortactical self-presentation; why? [4] 

d) Describe how apublic restroom is both a front region and a back region of self-presentation. [6]