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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. 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.
Group Norms
Secondary Groups
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Prejudice
2. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Primary Groups
Laws
Ethnocentrism
Group
3. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth
Utopias
Humanistic Psychology
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Group
4. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Schizophrenia
Status
Punishment
Erik Erickson
5. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Correlational Research
Deindividualism
Mores
Laws
6. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Habituation
Correlational Research
Cognitive Theory
7. 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'.
Humanistic Psychology
Reactionary Groups
Physical Anthroplogy
Folkways
8. 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.
Values
Cultural Relativity
Secondary Groups
Subcultures
9. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Social Stratification
Beliefs
Transference
Classical Conditioning
10. 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
Physical Anthroplogy
Values
Values
Social Stratification
11. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Beliefs
Social Cognition
Cultural Diffusion
Group
12. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Humanistic Psychology
Conformity
Beliefs
Dominant Cultures
13. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Jean Piaget
Carl Jung
Cognitive Theory
Transference
14. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)
Social Stratification
Prosocial Behavior
Erik Erickson
Reactionary Groups
15. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Serial-Position Effect
Utopias
Major Depressive Disorder
Dominant Cultures
16. 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.
Cognitive Theory
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Biases
Cultural Relativity
17. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Biases
Mores
Correlational Research
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
18. Critical Period in development is a period of time which an organism typically needs to be exposed to a particular stimulus in order for proper development to occur.
Cultural Diffusion
Ideals
Sensitive Development Period
Pluralistic Ignorance
19. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Reactionary Groups
Deindividualism
Latent Learning
Humanistic Psychology
20. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Perception
Conflict
Subcultures
Correlational Research
21. 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.
Enculturation
Ivan Pavlov
Primary Groups
Reactionary Groups
22. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Schizophrenia
Pluralistic Ignorance
Social Stratification
Sigmund Freud
23. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Social Cognition
Subcultures
Punishment
Split Brain
24. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Identity Formation
Enculturation
Group
Ivan Pavlov
25. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Identity crisis
Physical Anthroplogy
Conformity
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
26. 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
Latent Learning
Group Norms
Sensitive Development Period
Antropology
27. 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
Serial-Position Effect
B.F. Skinner
Culture Clash
28. 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.
Identity crisis
Negative Reinforcement
Primary Groups
Dominant Cultures
29. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Physical Anthroplogy
Cognitive Theory
Ideals
Sensitive Development Period
30. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Sensitive Development Period
Cultural Diffusion
Cultural Relativity
Cognitive Theory
31. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Mores
Role
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Negative Reinforcement
32. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Conflict
Mores
Laws
Primary Groups
33. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Deindividualism
Biases
Negative Sanctions
34. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Cognitive Theory
Negative Sanctions
Abnormal Psychology
Conflict
35. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Dominant Cultures
Institutions
Values
Social Solidarity
36. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Biases
Prosocial Behavior
Behavioral Psychology
Erik Erickson
37. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Ascribed Status
Social Stratification
Sterotypes
Social Stratification
38. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Physical Anthroplogy
Serial-Position Effect
Erik Erickson
Norms
39. 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.
Correlational Research
Identity crisis
Institutions
Reactionary Groups
40. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Transference
Social Solidarity
Social Cognition
Archaeology
41. 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.
Subcultures
Ideals
Group
Ethnocentrism
42. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Identity crisis
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Socialization
Deindividualism
43. 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
Schizophrenia
Group
Social Solidarity
44. 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
Networks
Correlational Research
Serial-Position Effect
Cultural Anthroplogy
45. 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.
Prejudice
Primary Groups
Classical Conditioning
Paranoid Personality Disorder
46. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Archaeology
Habituation
Social mobility
Abnormal Psychology
47. Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis - 1856-1939; Field: psychoanalytic - personality; Contributions: id/ego/superego - reality and pleasure principles - ego ide
Carl Jung
Folkways
Carl Jung
Sigmund Freud
48. 1875-1961; Field: neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; Contributions: people had conscious and unconscious awareness; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; Studies: dream studies/interpretation
Negative Sanctions
Prosocial Behavior
Deviance
Carl Jung
49. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Abnormal Psychology
Folkways
Sterotypes
Serial-Position Effect
50. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Ascribed Status
Deindividualism
Classical Conditioning
Multicultural diversity