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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. 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
Prejudice
Social Stratification
Cultural Relativity
Laws
2. 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
Values
Folkways
Social Stratification
Cultural Relativity
3. 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.
Archaeology
Culture Clash
Correlational Research
Carl Jung
4. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Punishment
Conflict
Positive Sanctions
Cultural Anthroplogy
5. 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
Ideals
Schizophrenia
B.F. Skinner
Group
6. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Biases
Sterotypes
Cultural Diffusion
Sigmund Freud
7. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Multicultural diversity
Role
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Beliefs
8. 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.
Values
Norms
Primary Groups
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
9. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Mores
Sensitive Development Period
Values
Laws
10. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Enculturation
Ascribed Status
Ideals
Social Stratification
11. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Socialization
Deindividualism
Jean Piaget
Identity crisis
12. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Mores
Sensitive Development Period
Ascribed Status
Antropology
13. 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.
Socialization
Social Stratification
Culture Clash
Social Solidarity
14. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Positive Sanctions
Deviance
Serial-Position Effect
Group
15. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Conformity
Primary Groups
Deviance
Deindividualism
16. 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'.
Correlational Research
Reactionary Groups
Negative Sanctions
Pluralistic Ignorance
17. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Conflict
Punishment
Pluralism
Humanistic Psychology
18. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Social Solidarity
Dominant Cultures
Classical Conditioning
Major Depressive Disorder
19. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Primary Groups
Carl Jung
Pluralism
Punishment
20. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Conflict
Enculturation
Sensitive Development Period
Cognitive Theory
21. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Mores
Positive Sanctions
Abnormal Psychology
Identity Formation
22. 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
Identity Formation
Negative Sanctions
Serial-Position Effect
Sensitive Development Period
23. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Networks
Role
Institutions
Prejudice
24. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov
Sensitive Development Period
Norms
Correlational Research
25. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Status
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Schizophrenia
Punishment
26. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Sensitive Development Period
Negative Sanctions
B.F. Skinner
Archaeology
27. 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.
Pluralism
Social Cognition
Split Brain
Conflict
28. 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
Secondary Groups
Ethnocentrism
Serial-Position Effect
Perception
29. Are rules that are designed to govern the behavior of the members. Are intended to integrate the actions of the group members. Are to reflect the appropriate behavior - attitudes - and perceptions of the the members. 'Conformity and compliance are tw
Sigmund Freud
Group Norms
B.F. Skinner
Social mobility
30. 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
Norms
Group Norms
Habituation
Classical Conditioning
31. 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.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Primary Groups
Erik Erickson
Biases
32. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Subcultures
Cultural Anthroplogy
Social Cognition
Ethnocentrism
33. 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.
Abnormal Psychology
Sterotypes
Enculturation
Correlational Research
34. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Utopias
Prosocial Behavior
Dominant Cultures
Correlational Research
35. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Social Stratification
Deviance
Archaeology
Socialization
36. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Humanistic Psychology
Schizophrenia
Pluralistic Ignorance
Negative Sanctions
37. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Laws
Sterotypes
Conflict
Status
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.
Social Stratification
Ascribed Status
Culture Clash
Laws
39. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Secondary Groups
Laws
Cultural Diffusion
Social Solidarity
40. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Group Norms
Cognitive Theory
Ivan Pavlov
Subcultures
41. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Deviance
Values
Perception
Dissociative Identity Disorder
42. 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
Ideals
Prejudice
Laws
43. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Laws
Ivan Pavlov
Behavioral Psychology
Identity crisis
44. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Punishment
Folkways
Archaeology
Beliefs
45. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Deindividualism
Utopias
Punishment
Dominant Cultures
46. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Socialization
Pluralism
Social mobility
Carl Jung
47. 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.
Ideals
Subcultures
Sterotypes
Social mobility
48. 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.
Jean Piaget
Enculturation
Biases
Archaeology
49. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Negative Sanctions
Values
Role
50. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Multicultural diversity
Mores
Transference
Secondary Groups