Give Short Answers to the Following Questions:
1. A). What is socialization?
B). Anthropologists interchange the term socialization with enculturation. Cognitive and psychological anthropologists are especially interested in how we socialize or enculturate children into their specific gender role. Name some ways that our culture reinforces those male and females models.
2. Describe the three major socialization influences on children. What are their functions?
3. Let's think about behavior differences between males and females due to what is learn (culture) and how much is hard wired through the structure and chemistry of male and female brains. Read the newspaper article on memory in the Adventure Orientation . Present your ideas on what could be cultural and what could be genetic in the explanation of the research. After reading the chapter on Psychology and Culture, what caution would you offer the author regarding the interpretation of the results?
4. What did psychologist Otto Klineberg mean when he said "how could psychologists speak of human attributes and human behavior when they know only one kind of human beings?"
5. What are the concepts of conservation and reversibility described by Piaget? Give an example of each from your daily life.
6. Why do the Yanamomo raise their children to be so aggressive? Why are North American Children not trained to be so aggressive?
7. How do TAT tests work and what is it that they reveal about personality of the person taking the test?
8. What are culture bound syndromes? Describe one from a different culture the text and one from our own culture. What factors do you see in our culture that contribute to our own culture bound syndromes?
9. Refer to the "New Perspectives on Gender" box titled "Do Women have different Morality?" What is the proposal by Carol Gilligan?" What is the evidence for her proposal? What evidence contradicts it?
10. View the drawings made by elementary children at a Central Florida school. What themes have shaped their drawings? What might we assume about their culture from the drawings?
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