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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Role
Ascribed Status
Pluralism
Paranoid Personality Disorder
2. 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.
Socialization
Cultural Diffusion
Latent Learning
Correlational Research
3. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Abnormal Psychology
Humanistic Psychology
Positive Sanctions
Punishment
4. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Multicultural diversity
B.F. Skinner
5. 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.
Identity crisis
Positive Sanctions
Networks
Culture Clash
6. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Laws
Habituation
Ideals
Values
7. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Social Solidarity
Schizophrenia
Group
8. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Social Stratification
Conflict
Antropology
Deindividualism
9. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Archaeology
Deviance
Sigmund Freud
Humanistic Psychology
10. 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.
Institutions
Deindividualism
Sigmund Freud
Utopias
11. 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
Beliefs
Jean Piaget
Identity Formation
Group Norms
12. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Sterotypes
Secondary Groups
Cognitive Theory
Negative Sanctions
13. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Carl Jung
Identity Formation
Dominant Cultures
Folkways
14. 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
Folkways
Behavioral Psychology
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Group Norms
15. 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
Negative Sanctions
Classical Conditioning
Conflict
B.F. Skinner
16. 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.
Dominant Cultures
Beliefs
Social Cognition
Correlational Research
17. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Socialization
Behavioral Psychology
Major Depressive Disorder
Humanistic Psychology
18. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Mores
Pluralistic Ignorance
Enculturation
Pluralism
19. 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
Norms
Ascribed Status
Positive Sanctions
Social Stratification
20. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Antropology
Norms
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Networks
21. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Beliefs
Prejudice
Schizophrenia
Group
22. 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.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Latent Learning
Identity Formation
23. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Pluralistic Ignorance
Social Cognition
Secondary Groups
Negative Reinforcement
24. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Social Solidarity
Cognitive Theory
Values
Physical Anthroplogy
25. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Perception
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Conflict
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
26. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Dominant Cultures
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Identity crisis
Conflict
27. 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.
Institutions
Utopias
Cultural Relativity
Behavioral Psychology
28. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov
Negative Reinforcement
Sterotypes
Enculturation
29. 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
Prosocial Behavior
Habituation
Positive Sanctions
30. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Secondary Groups
Institutions
Multicultural diversity
Cultural Anthroplogy
31. 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
Laws
Erik Erickson
Group
32. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Networks
Laws
Multicultural diversity
Physical Anthroplogy
33. 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
Punishment
Conflict
Major Depressive Disorder
Utopias
34. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Physical Anthroplogy
Sterotypes
Pluralistic Ignorance
Cognitive Theory
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.
Social mobility
Latent Learning
Social Solidarity
Values
36. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Negative Sanctions
Networks
Social Cognition
Cultural Relativity
37. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Behavioral Psychology
Abnormal Psychology
Carl Jung
Deviance
38. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Role
Sterotypes
Erik Erickson
Major Depressive Disorder
39. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Subcultures
Ethnocentrism
Transference
Sigmund Freud
40. 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.
Ideals
Sterotypes
Primary Groups
Group
41. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Ethnocentrism
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Serial-Position Effect
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
42. 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.
Cultural Relativity
Pluralism
Prejudice
Negative Sanctions
43. 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
Punishment
Multicultural diversity
Norms
Sterotypes
44. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Social Solidarity
B.F. Skinner
Mores
45. 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.
Networks
Transference
Abnormal Psychology
Ideals
46. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Diffusion
Sterotypes
47. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Dominant Cultures
Social Stratification
Correlational Research
Multicultural diversity
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
Identity Formation
Group Norms
Dominant Cultures
Carl Jung
49. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Erik Erickson
Dominant Cultures
Identity crisis
Folkways
50. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Enculturation
Negative Reinforcement
Antropology
Schizophrenia
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