Learned helplessness is characterized by all of the following except:
a. a low self-concept
b. feeling that she cannot control the abuse.
c. feeling that the perpetrator really loves her but has learned he is helpless against hurting her.
d. a process of behavioral reinforcement in which she "learns" to be helpless.
c
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According to the study cited in the text, how does doing well in school affect the student's popularity?
a. It increases popularity for girls, but decreases popularity for boys. b. It increases popularity for boys, but decreases popularity for girls. c. It increases popularity for both boys and girls. d. It decreases popularity for both boys and girls.
Much of the public discussion about race and poverty rests on false assumptions about the defective nature of minorities, their ability, their values, and their cultures
a. true b. false
Reentry shock is ___________ in reverse; it is experienced upon returning home after living in another culture
a. material culture c. ethnocentrism b. culture shock d. cultural relativity
Which of the following is NOT a criticism of the relative-deprivation theory?
a. Those who are most deprived are not necessarily those most likely to participate in social movements. b. Individuals participate in social movements on behalf of groups to which they do not belong. c. Relative-deprivation theory focuses too much on the underlying causes of the deprivation and the conditions that lead to organization of a movement. d. The theory does not specify the conditions under which deprivations will lead to social movements.