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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Major Depressive Disorder
Laws
Negative Sanctions
Sensitive Development Period
2. 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
Correlational Research
Negative Reinforcement
Habituation
B.F. Skinner
3. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Transference
Behavioral Psychology
Antropology
Sterotypes
4. 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.
Culture Clash
Laws
Cognitive Theory
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
5. 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
Negative Reinforcement
Institutions
Social Stratification
Major Depressive Disorder
6. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Beliefs
Conflict
Antropology
Ethnocentrism
7. 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.
Correlational Research
Status
Utopias
Classical Conditioning
8. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Status
Ideals
Latent Learning
Latent Learning
9. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Cultural Anthroplogy
Deindividualism
Mores
Status
10. 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'.
Reactionary Groups
Multicultural diversity
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Sigmund Freud
11. 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.
Archaeology
Transference
Social Solidarity
Primary Groups
12. Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups - belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.
Conflict
Socialization
Ideals
Ethnocentrism
13. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Laws
Norms
Sigmund Freud
Group
14. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Folkways
Conformity
Reactionary Groups
Abnormal Psychology
15. 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
Cultural Anthroplogy
Pluralism
Social Solidarity
16. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Perception
Primary Groups
Physical Anthroplogy
Sterotypes
17. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Serial-Position Effect
Latent Learning
Ideals
Conflict
18. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Mores
Archaeology
Habituation
Perception
19. 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
Deviance
Conformity
Biases
20. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Perception
Social Stratification
Correlational Research
Cognitive Theory
21. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Ascribed Status
Transference
Biases
Ivan Pavlov
22. 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.
Sensitive Development Period
Social Cognition
Perception
Serial-Position Effect
23. 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.
Cultural Relativity
Deviance
Role
Primary Groups
24. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Values
Role
Habituation
Transference
25. 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
Cultural Anthroplogy
Serial-Position Effect
Ivan Pavlov
Split Brain
26. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Physical Anthroplogy
Ivan Pavlov
Identity crisis
Social Stratification
27. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Secondary Groups
Habituation
Dominant Cultures
28. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Perception
Prosocial Behavior
B.F. Skinner
Dissociative Identity Disorder
29. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Biases
Status
Socialization
Pluralism
30. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Major Depressive Disorder
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Social mobility
Transference
31. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Cultural Relativity
Erik Erickson
Deindividualism
Mores
32. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Dominant Cultures
Behavioral Psychology
Pluralism
Enculturation
33. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Physical Anthroplogy
Cultural Diffusion
Perception
Carl Jung
34. 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
Serial-Position Effect
Erik Erickson
Role
Conflict
35. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Ascribed Status
Pluralistic Ignorance
Abnormal Psychology
Carl Jung
36. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Social Cognition
Deindividualism
Abnormal Psychology
Ascribed Status
37. 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'.
Multicultural diversity
Conformity
Sigmund Freud
Reactionary Groups
38. 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
Social mobility
Beliefs
Major Depressive Disorder
Cultural Relativity
39. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Humanistic Psychology
Institutions
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Archaeology
40. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Social Stratification
Cultural Anthroplogy
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
41. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Identity crisis
Reactionary Groups
Ideals
Conformity
42. 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.
Erik Erickson
Antropology
Split Brain
Archaeology
43. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Enculturation
Latent Learning
Schizophrenia
Major Depressive Disorder
44. 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
Negative Reinforcement
Cultural Anthroplogy
Positive Sanctions
45. 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
Social Cognition
Habituation
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
46. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Punishment
Behavioral Psychology
Group
Role
47. 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.
Sigmund Freud
Subcultures
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
48. 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
Group Norms
Ethnocentrism
Deviance
Utopias
49. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Negative Reinforcement
Folkways
Social Cognition
Laws
50. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Latent Learning
Split Brain
Conflict
Group