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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II

Subject : humanities
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1. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.






2. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.






3. 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.






4. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others






5. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.






6. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.






7. 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.






8. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.






9. 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.






10. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.






11. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.






12. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems






13. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.






14. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. 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.






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.






19. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior






20. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.






21. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.






22. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems






23. 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.






24. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.






25. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.






26. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth






27. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.






28. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.






29. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.






30. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.






31. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.






32. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.






33. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms






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






35. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.






36. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.






37. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others






38. 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.






39. 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






40. 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






41. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.






42. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.






43. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.






44. 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






45. 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






46. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.






47. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.






48. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.






49. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone






50. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.