Lesson 1.2
1.2 Debates over the acquisition of identity Quiz: WJEC Eduqas Sociology, Unit 1
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The 20 questions
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In the nature versus nurture debate, what does the term nature refer to?
- Cultural transmission
- Social learning
- Environmental conditioning
- Genetic inheritance
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What term is used to describe a child raised with little or no human contact?
- Orphaned child
- Isolated pupil
- Feral child
- Socialised infant
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Which well-known case involves a severely isolated girl studied for language development?
- Victor
- Genie
- Kaspar
- Oxana
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What is the primary focus of the nurture view in human development?
- Biological instincts
- Genetic coding
- Social experience
- Innate traits
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What does the interactionist position claim about identity development?
- Instincts dictate behaviour
- Genetics determine everything
- Culture has no impact
- Biology and environment interact
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What is suggested when identical twins raised apart share common personality traits?
- Pure nurture
- Identical environments
- Genetic influence
- Cultural conditioning
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What do extreme social isolation cases demonstrate about human language?
- Communication requires no practice
- Social interaction is necessary
- Language is purely genetic
- Speech develops automatically
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What do the struggles of feral children suggest about human development?
- Isolation aids learning
- Early experience matters
- Biology overrides culture
- Instincts guide behaviour
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Why do sociologists criticise pure biological determinism?
- It focuses on learning
- It ignores social influence
- It denies genetic traits
- It overemphasises culture
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Which evidence best supports the nurture side of the development debate?
- Innate drives
- Cultural assimilation
- Genetic disorders
- Universal reflexes
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What is a major methodological limitation of studying feral children?
- Cases are rare
- Data is too standardised
- Experiments are easy
- Samples are too large
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A sociologist argues that gender identity is mostly learned through family and peers. Which position does this reflect?
- Nature
- Functionalism
- Nurture
- Biological determinism
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How do modern sociologists view the relationship between nature and nurture?
- Nurture irrelevant
- Mutually exclusive
- Interdependent factors
- Nature dominant
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Which confounding factor made the Genie feral child case difficult to interpret?
- Severe abuse
- Sensory impairment
- Genetic disorders
- Premature birth
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What variation in human societies supports the dominance of socialisation?
- Universal human instincts
- Diverse cultural norms
- Identical biological drives
- Fixed genetic responses
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What does the sociological concept of tabula rasa or blank slate mean?
- Genetic blueprints
- Instinctive knowledge
- No innate characteristics
- Pre-programmed behaviours
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Why are single case studies avoided as absolute proof in sociology?
- Random sampling
- Total objectivity
- Atypical representation
- Quantitative certainty
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What causes an individual's identity to change across their lifetime?
- New social experiences
- Static childhood roles
- Immutable biological drives
- Fixed genetic traits
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What type of factors are indicated when deprived environments lower language skills?
- Environmental factors
- Inborn instincts
- Genetic defects
- Biolgical mutations
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Why is separating nature and nurture in humans difficult?
- Overlapping influences
- Controlled experiments
- Pure heredity
- Identical DNA
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