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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II

Subject : humanities
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1. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.






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






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






4. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms






5. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.






6. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life






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






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






9. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.






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






11. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.






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






13. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.






14. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.






15. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.






16. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.






17. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige






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






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






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. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).






25. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit






26. 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






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






28. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.






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






30. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.






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






46. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life






47. 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






48. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations






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






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