EXAM REVIEW HSB4U:Grade 12 Challenge & Change

Exam Breakdown:
Knowledge: [21 marks]

● 21 questions multiple-choice and matching

Thinking: Theory Identification [4x4=16 marks]

● Read the provided news headlines and
identify which school of thought would be interested.
● Identify the school and the main ideas/terms. Apply main focus to the
given phenomena.

Communication: Short Answers [7 marks]

● 2 short questions

Application: Article Analysis [17 marks]

● Read a psychology experiment and respond to questions

Thinking/Communication: Case Analysis [22marks]

● Read a case and answer questions
● Applying the social science disciplines to pose thoughtful
inquiry questions

Total 92 Marks = 15% of Final Grade

EXAM REVIEW HSB4U:Grade 12 Challenge & Change

TIP SHEET:

Concepts & terms to review:

● Bargaining for Reality ● Systemic discrimination
● Confederate ● Technosis
● Demography ● Hyperculture
● Culture shock
● Future shock
● Neutral stimulus
● Paradigm - alternative versus ● Conditioned response
dominant ● Punishment versus rewards
● Variable ● Id, ego and superego
● Dependent Variable ● Binary oppositions
● Independent variable ● Alienation
● Demography ● Conformity
● Exploitation ● Behaviour modification
● Conditioning ● Cognitive dissonance
● Counter Culture ● Enculturation
● Socialization ● Status
● Pluralism ● Normative influence versus
● Singularity informational influence
● Modernizing Elites ● Capitalism
● Anomie

Schools of thought + theorist & theories:

Anthropology & Key Theorists:
● Structuralism - a theorist in this school: Margeret Mead.
● Functionalism - a theorist in this school ​Abraham Harold. Theory
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
● Cultural materialism - a theorist in this school is Marvin Harris

Psychology & Key Theorists:

● Psychoanalytic theory - Sigmund Freud, Eric Erikson
● Behaviorism and learning theory Theory - John Watson, Alfred
Bandura, Leon Festinger, Phil Zimbardo
● Developmental Psychology - Jean Piaget

Sociology & Key Theorists:

● Structural-Functionalism - Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx (review the
associated terms)
● Symbolic Interactionism - George H. Mead (The Looking Glass Self)
● Neo-Marxism - Immanuel Wallenstein
● Feminism - Dorthy Smith
● Inclusionism - W. E. B. Du Bois
EXAM REVIEW HSB4U:Grade 12 Challenge & Change

Special focus on:

● Lesson 1.4 - extra attention to symbolic interactionism (George H. Mead)
● Lesson 2.4 - extra attention to theory of cognitive dissonance clip
● Lesson 2.5
● Lesson 2.7
● Stages of Change in relation to behaviour modification