HSP Exam Review

Use the bulleted points to outline your study notes. Items in italics are videos or articles you should be familiar with. Names in brackets are social scientists you should be familiar with.

Introduction

  • Have a clear understanding of the differences between the studies of anthropology, psychology, and sociology. What do these social scientists study? What is their focus? What are potential jobs, careers or fields of study for each?
  • Be familiar with the following social scientists (pioneers) and their contributions:
  • Page 14 – all four
  • Page 18 and 19 – Freud, Jung, Piaget, Erickson, Chomsky
  • Page 29 and 30 – Compte, Marx, Weber, Durkheim

Chapter 1 – What Makes us Human?

Anthropology: Human Evolution

  • Evolution (Darwin)
  • Natural Selection (Darwin)
  • Genetic Proof (Mendel)
  • Human proof (Dart)
  • Similarities between humans and primates (animals)
  • What makes humans unique?
  • Creation model vs. evolution model
  • Top evidences against evolution

Humans and primates – how are we connected (article)

Jane Goodall (video)

Psychological: Cognitive Ability

  • Cognitive process
  • Cerebral cortex
  • Complex motivations
  • Ability to reason
  • Four factors of affecting behaviour
  • Personality, traits, and big 5 theory (freud)
  • Brain Sex (video)

Sociological: Culture

  • Definition of culture and definition of society according to sociologists
  • Symbols
  • Norms
  • Values

How others define humanity (Vanier/Hitler)

Nell (video)

Chapter 2 – How We Communicate

Anthropology (verbal and non-verbal language)

  • Physical attributes enabling speech (Broca’s area, hyoid bone, etc.)
  • Verbal communication
  • Non-verbal communication (body language, tone/character, interaction distances, clothing, etc.)
  • Dating and interview body language (discussion)

Psychological (acquiring and manipulating language)

  • Stages of acquiring/learning language (Pavlov, Skinner, Chomsky)

Sociological (impact of language on culture)

  • Linguistic relativity theory
  • Andocentric language
  • Development of new languages (i.e. spanglish and ebonics)
  • Technology’s effect on language (i.e. text, internet, etc.)
  • DeafBlind (video)

Chapter 3 – What Shapes Human Behavior?

Anthropology (genetics/environment)

  • Genetic factors
  • Environmental factors (behaviour versus acclimation adjustments)

Psychology (nature vs. nurture)

  • Nature vs. nurture – understanding these two sides of the debate
  • Parenting styles (Baumrind)
  • Psychosocial development (Erikson)
  • Cognitive development (Piaget)
  • Moral Development (Kohlberg vs. Gilligan)

Sociology (impact of society)

  • Functionist, conflict and symbolic-interationist perspectives (Marx)

Chapter 4 – Rites of Passage

  • Ms. Hunkin’s Handouts and discussions summarizing the chapter

Chapters 5, 6, and 7 – Social Institutions

  • Know the different types of institutions (primary, secondary, total, anticipatory)
  • Understand the issues with the following agents of socialization:
  • Family (various types f family)
  • School
  • Media and children’s programming
  • Prisons
  • Be sure to understand what the functionalist and conflict theorist view is on each institution
  • Understand how gender roles emerge in each institution (i.e. how might males/females be socialized differently in each institution)

Changes in family (page 180-183)

Sesame street (article)

Abnormal Psychology

  • Defence mechanisms repression, rationalization, regression)
  • Neurosis (anxiety, phobias, obsessions)
  • Psychosis (paranoid, narcissistic, antisocial) *Also remember that antisocial personality disorders also split into sociopathic and psychopathic behaviours.

Chapter 8 – Groups and Group Behaviour

  • What is a group? What are some advantages and disadvantages?

Anthropology: Origins of group behaviour

  • Change from hunter-gather to agricultural to industrialized societies

Sociology: different types of groups

  • Primary vs. secondary groups

Zimbardo effect (article)

Stockholm syndrome (article)

Bystander effect (page 20-21)

Psychology: how individuals are influenced to conform

  • Summarize pages 264 – 266

How social scientists use experiments to investigate group behaviour (Milgram) (pages 268-269 questions 1-5)

Chapter 9 – Conflict and Cohesion

Conflict and cohesion – summarize pages 189 – 291

Overcoming ethnocentrism (pages 292 – 293 questions 1-5)