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The concept of tabula rasa
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Implies that individuals are shaped primarily by their experiences, which differ from culture to culture.
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Because culture is socially constructed and learned rather than biologically inherited,
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All societies must somehow ensure that culture is adequately transmitted from one generation to the next.
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Enculturation is the process of transmitting
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Culture from one generation to the next.
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The agents of enculturation
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-vary, depending on the structure of the family into which a child is born.
-include peer groups and school teachers.
c. are at first the members of the family into which the child is born.
d. all of these choices
e. are persons involved in transmitting culture to the next generation.
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Which of the following statements about self-awareness is/are correct?
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All choices, except American children develop self-awareness earlier than do Ju/'hoansi children
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____________ is/are the distinctive way a person thinks, feels, and behaves.
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Personality
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Through naming, a person not only has a personal identity,
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But also recognition by the group of the person's birthright and social identity.
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Among most Native American groups, the ___________ were considered sacred individuals especially blessed by the Great Spirit.
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Two spirit
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As Margaret Mead's pioneering studies suggest,
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Biological differences between males and females are extremely malleable; biology is not destiny.
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Independence training is more likely in
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Small nuclear families.
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Dependence training is more likely in
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Small-scale horticultural societies where a man has many wives.
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Early studies of the relationship between personality and culture had assumed that they were essentially the same; culture stamped out identical personalities like cars off an assembly line. A more statistical concept of psychological traits in a society
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Modal personality.
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The use of standardized tests, like the Rohrshach and TAT, to develop the modal personality of a culture can be problematic because
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Tests devised in one cultural setting may not be appropriate in another.
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Which of the following statements about modal personality is/are correct?
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-Although a modal personality may be found for a particular society, a range of personalities may exist in that society.
-Although the modal personality may be considered "normal" for that society, it may be shared by less than half of the population.
-Data on modal personality are usually gathered by the use of psychological tests such as the Rorschach and TAT.
-Those who study modal personality accept the fact that there may be abnormal individuals in that society.
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Studies of ____________ were developed during World War II to explore the idea that basic personality traits were shared by most of the people in modern nations.
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National character
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