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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Abnormal Psychology
Cultural Anthroplogy
Status
Behavioral Psychology
2. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Antropology
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Status
Social mobility
3. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Socialization
Deviance
Split Brain
B.F. Skinner
4. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Prejudice
Behavioral Psychology
Transference
Social Stratification
5. 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.
Deviance
Sensitive Development Period
Social Stratification
Dissociative Identity Disorder
6. 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
Schizophrenia
B.F. Skinner
Prosocial Behavior
Status
7. 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.
Multicultural diversity
Laws
Ethnocentrism
Antropology
8. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Humanistic Psychology
Subcultures
Social Stratification
Social mobility
9. 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.
Enculturation
Cultural Relativity
Ethnocentrism
Pluralistic Ignorance
10. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Humanistic Psychology
Cultural Anthroplogy
Utopias
Conflict
11. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Humanistic Psychology
Group Norms
Social Solidarity
Group
12. 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.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Culture Clash
Primary Groups
Social Solidarity
13. 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
Subcultures
Cultural Relativity
Serial-Position Effect
14. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Social Solidarity
Secondary Groups
Ethnocentrism
15. 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'.
Laws
Reactionary Groups
Identity crisis
Biases
16. 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.
Enculturation
Negative Reinforcement
Carl Jung
Role
17. 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
Identity Formation
Role
Folkways
18. 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'.
Mores
Beliefs
Reactionary Groups
Socialization
19. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Correlational Research
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Transference
Laws
20. 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
Carl Jung
Physical Anthroplogy
Ivan Pavlov
Norms
21. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Habituation
Behavioral Psychology
Multicultural diversity
Sigmund Freud
22. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Carl Jung
Perception
Status
Habituation
23. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Antropology
Behavioral Psychology
Deviance
Punishment
24. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Beliefs
Group
Ideals
Cognitive Theory
25. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Social Stratification
Sensitive Development Period
Conflict
Mores
26. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Multicultural diversity
Identity Formation
Ascribed Status
Group
27. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Antropology
Social Stratification
Subcultures
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
28. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Ideals
Role
Physical Anthroplogy
Punishment
29. 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.
Norms
Pluralistic Ignorance
Social Cognition
Institutions
30. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Ascribed Status
Enculturation
Cultural Anthroplogy
Jean Piaget
31. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Cognitive Theory
Identity Formation
Sensitive Development Period
Secondary Groups
32. 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
Social Stratification
Subcultures
Subcultures
Social Cognition
33. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Ideals
Transference
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Cognitive Theory
34. 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.
Archaeology
Prejudice
Norms
Ivan Pavlov
35. 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
Mores
Social Stratification
Deindividualism
Identity Formation
36. 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
Utopias
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Primary Groups
Major Depressive Disorder
37. 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.
Latent Learning
Major Depressive Disorder
Cultural Relativity
Group
38. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Folkways
Behavioral Psychology
Social mobility
Classical Conditioning
39. 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
Institutions
Enculturation
Norms
Serial-Position Effect
40. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Identity crisis
Utopias
Conformity
Conflict
41. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Social mobility
Prejudice
Networks
Ivan Pavlov
42. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Punishment
Classical Conditioning
Culture Clash
Role
43. 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.
Prejudice
Antropology
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Institutions
44. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Pluralism
Cognitive Theory
Culture Clash
Split Brain
45. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Antropology
Deindividualism
Pluralism
Dominant Cultures
46. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Secondary Groups
Identity crisis
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Schizophrenia
47. 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
Mores
Abnormal Psychology
Identity Formation
Subcultures
48. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)
Values
Habituation
Socialization
Erik Erickson
49. 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.
Identity Formation
Physical Anthroplogy
Conformity
Primary Groups
50. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Positive Sanctions
Jean Piaget
Sensitive Development Period
Sterotypes