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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Conflict
Deindividualism
Social Solidarity
Ivan Pavlov
2. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Ethnocentrism
Deindividualism
Group
Secondary Groups
3. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Dominant Cultures
Habituation
Sterotypes
Social Cognition
4. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Socialization
Social mobility
Social Cognition
Identity crisis
5. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Archaeology
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Carl Jung
Group Norms
6. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Utopias
Beliefs
Major Depressive Disorder
Jean Piaget
7. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Transference
Behavioral Psychology
Social mobility
Latent Learning
8. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Conflict
Group
Identity crisis
Serial-Position Effect
9. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Conformity
Secondary Groups
Carl Jung
Dominant Cultures
10. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth
Humanistic Psychology
Social Stratification
Biases
Institutions
11. 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
Sensitive Development Period
Identity Formation
Correlational Research
Major Depressive Disorder
12. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Institutions
Mores
Transference
Prejudice
13. 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
Archaeology
Enculturation
Dissociative Identity Disorder
14. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Socialization
Prosocial Behavior
Networks
15. 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.
Erik Erickson
Ideals
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Enculturation
16. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Mores
Group Norms
Beliefs
Archaeology
17. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Ethnocentrism
Transference
Socialization
18. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Role
Serial-Position Effect
Behavioral Psychology
Cognitive Theory
19. 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
Split Brain
Cultural Relativity
Humanistic Psychology
Sigmund Freud
20. 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
Schizophrenia
Serial-Position Effect
Major Depressive Disorder
B.F. Skinner
21. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Networks
Group Norms
Schizophrenia
Social mobility
22. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Behavioral Psychology
Dominant Cultures
Enculturation
Subcultures
23. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Identity Formation
Erik Erickson
Cognitive Theory
Carl Jung
24. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Laws
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Prejudice
Latent Learning
25. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Classical Conditioning
Antropology
Positive Sanctions
Norms
26. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Beliefs
Erik Erickson
Positive Sanctions
Pluralism
27. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Social Solidarity
Beliefs
Negative Sanctions
Secondary Groups
28. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Social Solidarity
Networks
Identity Formation
Erik Erickson
29. 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.
Schizophrenia
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Punishment
Culture Clash
30. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Habituation
Serial-Position Effect
Archaeology
Pluralism
31. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Abnormal Psychology
Ivan Pavlov
Laws
Identity crisis
32. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Transference
Dominant Cultures
Subcultures
Biases
33. 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.
Prejudice
Status
Cultural Relativity
Ethnocentrism
34. 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
Multicultural diversity
Beliefs
Utopias
Carl Jung
35. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Punishment
Major Depressive Disorder
Socialization
Deviance
36. 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
B.F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
Group
Social mobility
37. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Prosocial Behavior
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Beliefs
Pluralistic Ignorance
38. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Prosocial Behavior
Cultural Relativity
Negative Sanctions
Humanistic Psychology
39. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Socialization
Norms
Ethnocentrism
Transference
40. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Classical Conditioning
Latent Learning
Abnormal Psychology
41. 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.
Cognitive Theory
Social Solidarity
Negative Sanctions
Negative Reinforcement
42. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Ethnocentrism
Deindividualism
Deviance
Positive Sanctions
43. 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.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Habituation
Biases
Classical Conditioning
44. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Social Stratification
Positive Sanctions
Networks
Values
45. 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
Archaeology
Social Stratification
Identity crisis
Cultural Anthroplogy
46. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Physical Anthroplogy
Social Solidarity
Humanistic Psychology
Institutions
47. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Status
Social mobility
Biases
Enculturation
48. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Ethnocentrism
Behavioral Psychology
Punishment
Institutions
49. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
B.F. Skinner
Social Stratification
Deviance
Group
50. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Transference
Prosocial Behavior
Group
Ascribed Status