Test your basic knowledge |

Anthropology Basics - Praxis II

Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.






2. 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.






3. Becoming aware of something via the senses






4. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.






5. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms






6. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems






7. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.






8. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations






9. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone






10. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.






11. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.






12. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.






13. The recognition that all cultures develop their own ways of dealing with the specific demands of their environments - the need to consider the unique characteristics of the culture in which behavior takes place.






14. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding






15. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.






16. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.






17. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations






18. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.






19. 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






20. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.






21. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.






22. Unique characteristics of ethics groups






23. A mood disorder in which a person - for no apparent reason - experiences two or more weeks of depressed moods - feelings of worthlessness - and diminishes interest or pleasure in most activities (Most common psychologoical disorder in the United Stat






24. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.






25. 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.






26. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.






27. Specific ideas that people hold to be true






28. Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members - shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations






29. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.






30. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.






31. A research strategy that identifies the relationships between two or more variables in order to describe how these variables change together. One advantage is that it helps psychologists make predictions.






32. Is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true - by the very terms of the prophecy itself - due to positive feedback between belief and behavior.






33. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth






34. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.






35. 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.






36. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.






37. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.






41. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.






42. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.






43. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).






44. 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'.






45. A term coined by Hermann Ebbinghaus - refers to the finding that recall accuracy varies as a function of an item's position within a study list. When asked to recall a list of items in any order (free recall) - people tend to begin recall with the en






46. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior






47. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.






48. Becoming aware of something via the senses






49. A term coined by Hermann Ebbinghaus - refers to the finding that recall accuracy varies as a function of an item's position within a study list. When asked to recall a list of items in any order (free recall) - people tend to begin recall with the en






50. A research strategy that identifies the relationships between two or more variables in order to describe how these variables change together. One advantage is that it helps psychologists make predictions.