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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth
Humanistic Psychology
Positive Sanctions
Cognitive Theory
Dissociative Identity Disorder
2. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something) - a principle or a way of behaving that is of a very high standard.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Ideals
Norms
Major Depressive Disorder
3. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs. This technique is used to increase the frequency of behavior.
Group Norms
Prosocial Behavior
Negative Reinforcement
B.F. Skinner
4. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Values
Biases
Classical Conditioning
Split Brain
5. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Cultural Diffusion
Pluralistic Ignorance
Role
Reactionary Groups
6. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Dominant Cultures
Subcultures
Antropology
Reactionary Groups
7. Pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that everything we do is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments. He is famous for use of his operant conditioning aparatus which he used to study schedules of reinforcement on pidgeons a
Antropology
Socialization
B.F. Skinner
Prosocial Behavior
8. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Schizophrenia
Ethnocentrism
Conformity
Utopias
9. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Pluralistic Ignorance
Enculturation
Cultural Diffusion
Schizophrenia
10. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Cultural Relativity
Networks
Social mobility
Archaeology
11. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Pluralism
Social Stratification
Deviance
Primary Groups
12. A condition in which the two hemispheres of the brain are isolated by cutting the connecting fibers (mainly those of the corpus callosum) between them. Research states that the left hemisphere is responsible for spoken language.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Identity crisis
Major Depressive Disorder
Split Brain
13. An inclination for or against a person - place - idea or thing that inhibits impartial judgment. - a prejudice towards one particular point of view or ideology.
Biases
Cultural Relativity
Sigmund Freud
Sterotypes
14. A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation - an opinion or strong feeling formed without careful thought or regard to the facts.
Cognitive Theory
Pluralistic Ignorance
Prejudice
Values
15. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Transference
Archaeology
Cognitive Theory
Folkways
16. The rules and procedures that provide incentives for political behavior - thereby shaping politics - organizations or activities that are self-perpetuating and valued for their own sake.
Values
Group Norms
Institutions
Carl Jung
17. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Social Stratification
Prosocial Behavior
Networks
Sensitive Development Period
18. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Antropology
Sensitive Development Period
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Ideals
19. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Enculturation
Role
Networks
Dominant Cultures
20. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Ascribed Status
B.F. Skinner
Social Stratification
Deviance
21. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Negative Sanctions
Major Depressive Disorder
Multicultural diversity
Punishment
22. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Mores
Role
Utopias
23. Pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that everything we do is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments. He is famous for use of his operant conditioning aparatus which he used to study schedules of reinforcement on pidgeons a
B.F. Skinner
Social Cognition
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Laws
24. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Group
Sensitive Development Period
Sterotypes
Institutions
25. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Prejudice
Social Solidarity
Positive Sanctions
Ivan Pavlov
26. Social groups - such as family or friends - composed of intimate face-to-face relationships that strongly influence the attitudes and ideals of those involved - groups that provide members with a sense of belonging and affection.
Primary Groups
Archaeology
Enculturation
Social mobility
27. Refers to viewpoints that seek to return to a previous state (the status quo ante) in a society. The term is meant to stand in opposition to and as one end of a political spectrum whose opposite pole is 'radicalism'.
Values
Habituation
Reactionary Groups
Utopias
28. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs. This technique is used to increase the frequency of behavior.
Negative Reinforcement
Laws
Ascribed Status
Humanistic Psychology
29. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)
Dominant Cultures
Institutions
Cultural Relativity
Erik Erickson
30. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Social mobility
Biases
Deindividualism
Cultural Anthroplogy
31. Erikson; stage of adolescence where teens are to develop a stable sense of self necessary to make the transition from dependence on other to dependence on oneself
Schizophrenia
Primary Groups
Mores
Identity Formation
32. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Pluralistic Ignorance
Conflict
Social Solidarity
Laws
33. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Dominant Cultures
Sterotypes
Sensitive Development Period
Paranoid Personality Disorder
34. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth
Humanistic Psychology
Norms
Deviance
Negative Sanctions
35. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.
Group
Abnormal Psychology
Social mobility
Pluralism
36. One of two components - together with agricultural surplus - which enables the formation of cities; the differentiation of society into classes based on wealth - power - production - and prestige
Ideals
Split Brain
Beliefs
Social Stratification
37. A condition in which the two hemispheres of the brain are isolated by cutting the connecting fibers (mainly those of the corpus callosum) between them. Research states that the left hemisphere is responsible for spoken language.
Mores
Jean Piaget
Prejudice
Split Brain
38. Is experienced when an individual experiences conflict between the beliefs - values and expectations of their primary culture and a new culture in which they must function.
Folkways
Culture Clash
Beliefs
Antropology
39. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Sterotypes
Beliefs
Biases
Ascribed Status
40. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Social Stratification
Positive Sanctions
Values
Cognitive Theory
41. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Norms
Physical Anthroplogy
Social Stratification
Prejudice
42. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Social Cognition
Deviance
Laws
Group Norms
43. Social groups - such as family or friends - composed of intimate face-to-face relationships that strongly influence the attitudes and ideals of those involved - groups that provide members with a sense of belonging and affection.
Social Stratification
Role
Ideals
Primary Groups
44. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Conformity
Social Stratification
Archaeology
Perception
45. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Negative Sanctions
Archaeology
Cultural Anthroplogy
Secondary Groups
46. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Cultural Relativity
Role
Split Brain
Punishment
47. One of two components - together with agricultural surplus - which enables the formation of cities; the differentiation of society into classes based on wealth - power - production - and prestige
Multicultural diversity
Role
Physical Anthroplogy
Social Stratification
48. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Jean Piaget
Laws
Archaeology
Identity crisis
49. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Social Stratification
Transference
Secondary Groups
Status
50. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Antropology
Humanistic Psychology
Identity crisis
Biases