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100

This disorder is characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, loss of interest, and low energy.

What is depression?

100

This sociologist argued that class conflict between the bourgeoisie and proletariat drives social change.


Who is Karl Marx?

100

Name 5 ways to communicate with someone.

What is phone, texting, face to face, newspaper, email, etc? 

100

This system of forced labor in the Americas relied on the transatlantic trade of enslaved Africans from the 16th to 19th centuries.

What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

100

True or False: You don't have to take general education classes to graduate at CSUSM. 

What is false?

200

This type of learning occurs when a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus.

What is classical conditioning?

200

The lifelong social experience by which people develop their humanity and learn culture.

What is Socialization?

200

 This communication model involves a sender, message, channel, receiver, and feedback

What is the transactional model of communication?

200

What big economic change happed in the United States in 1929?

What is The Great Depression?

200

True or False: Every Major at CSUSM has a librarian assigned to it.

What is True? 

300

This psychologist is known for developing the hierarchy of needs, often shown as a pyramid.


Who is Abraham Maslow?

300

How do people learn to be male and female?

What is gender socialization?

300

This theory explains how people use media to satisfy specific needs like entertainment or information

What is uses and gratifications theory?

300

This French event beginning in 1789 led to the overthrow of the monarchy.

What is the French Resolution?

300

Name 3 resources that CSUSM offers.

 What is Asi cougar pantry, ASI emergency fund, tutoring center, etc.

400

This brain structure, part of the limbic system, plays a key role in forming new memories and is affected early in Alzheimer’s disease.


What is the hippocampus?

400

Coined by W. E. B. Du Bois, this term describes the internal conflict experienced by marginalized groups when viewing themselves through the lens of a dominant culture.


What is double conciousness?

400

This theory examines how media shapes our perception of reality over time, especially through TV.

What is cultivation theory?

400

This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War and resulted in Mexico ceding large territories—including present-day California, Arizona, and New Mexico—to the United States.

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago?

400

True or False: The ASI cougar pantry is only available to those under a certain level of income. 

What is False? It is available to everyone! 

500

Researchers now recognize the active information processing that occurs in short-term memory and refer to it as ________ memory.


What is Working Memory?

500

Sociology is most concerned with how this affects people behavior and attitudes.

Institutions (social forces) 

500

A statement that expresses how you feel


What is an I message?

500

How many US presidents have been assassinated?

What is Four? Abraham Lincoln, James A Garfield, William Mc Kinley, and John F Kennedy.

500

How many primary fields does the social sciences major offer? 

What is 10?

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