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When Harry returned from a business meeting in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, his wife asked him what he thought of the Vietnamese people. Harry replied, “They’re primitive people who eat animals from the streets, drive wildly around town on motor scooters, and talk very fast. ” Harry’s reply best qualifies as an example of __________________________.

Sherry is in her mid 30’s and is transitioning to life at a new nursing home. She is used to getting up at 5 am and making breakfast for herself, but her new nursing home roommate likes to sleep until 7 am, and the nursing home doesn’t serve breakfast until 8 am.  Most likely what is Sherry experiencing?

Mr. Garcia has been hired as the new principal at his school. Mr. Garcia is now expected to show up to work early, train staff, manage the budget, stay after school, and keep order in the school. Mr. Garcia often gets home late because of this and works so much that his friends don’t want to hang out with him anymore.  The behaviors that Mr. Garcia is having to perform refers to the concept known as _______________.

The Asch experiment demonstrated that most people will submit to a person in authority, even if willingly inflicting pain on others. 

Xenocentrism is ______________________________

Match up the major theoretical perspective with it’s definition

Parents are the only significant others according to George H. Mead

This theory promotes the idea that certain cCountries that large amounts of people in poverty from one generation to the next, typically develop behaviors that cause them to not advance in social class. 

The Zimbardo / Stanford Prison Experiment proved that social pressure and status have no effect on our behavior

If Alice came to class wearing no clothes, she would be violating a ______________. But if Alice came to class wearing a dress out of human skin from her murder victims that she cannabalized, she would be violating a __________________ and would be arrested and likely put into a mental correctional facility.