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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Ethnocentrism
Values
Social Cognition
Negative Sanctions
2. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Diffusion
Beliefs
Social Stratification
3. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Deviance
Negative Sanctions
Major Depressive Disorder
Socialization
4. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Erik Erickson
Positive Sanctions
Ascribed Status
B.F. Skinner
5. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Multicultural diversity
Major Depressive Disorder
Jean Piaget
Networks
6. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Networks
Reactionary Groups
Social Cognition
7. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Carl Jung
Group
Utopias
Social Cognition
8. 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
Deindividualism
Norms
Abnormal Psychology
Mores
9. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Major Depressive Disorder
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Primary Groups
Cultural Relativity
10. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
B.F. Skinner
Dominant Cultures
Secondary Groups
Group
11. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Role
Primary Groups
Cultural Anthroplogy
Jean Piaget
12. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Habituation
Carl Jung
Multicultural diversity
13. 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
Habituation
Classical Conditioning
Beliefs
14. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Erik Erickson
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Conflict
Positive Sanctions
15. 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
Prejudice
Serial-Position Effect
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Social mobility
16. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Cultural Relativity
Identity Formation
Ascribed Status
Utopias
17. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Latent Learning
Schizophrenia
Reactionary Groups
Jean Piaget
18. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Mores
Transference
Cultural Anthroplogy
Multicultural diversity
19. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Status
Dominant Cultures
Group
Social Solidarity
20. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Social mobility
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Enculturation
Erik Erickson
21. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Behavioral Psychology
Institutions
Social Cognition
Folkways
22. 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
Reactionary Groups
Identity Formation
Cultural Diffusion
Socialization
23. 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
Major Depressive Disorder
Institutions
Folkways
Dissociative Identity Disorder
24. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Antropology
Behavioral Psychology
Perception
Carl Jung
25. 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
Sigmund Freud
Antropology
Multicultural diversity
Social Stratification
26. 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.
Identity Formation
Biases
Split Brain
Role
27. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Social Solidarity
Physical Anthroplogy
Social mobility
Cultural Diffusion
28. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Beliefs
Cognitive Theory
Paranoid Personality Disorder
29. 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
Classical Conditioning
Serial-Position Effect
Cultural Anthroplogy
Utopias
30. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Habituation
Laws
Prosocial Behavior
Ivan Pavlov
31. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Negative Reinforcement
Archaeology
Ascribed Status
Beliefs
32. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Networks
Jean Piaget
Socialization
Latent Learning
33. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Carl Jung
Habituation
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Positive Sanctions
34. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Social Stratification
Abnormal Psychology
Pluralism
B.F. Skinner
35. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.
Serial-Position Effect
Social mobility
Prejudice
Group Norms
36. 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
Beliefs
Utopias
Social Stratification
Prejudice
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'.
Ivan Pavlov
Reactionary Groups
Primary Groups
Folkways
38. 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
Pluralism
Jean Piaget
Role
39. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Social Stratification
Physical Anthroplogy
Conformity
Ideals
40. 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
Conflict
Serial-Position Effect
Negative Sanctions
41. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Habituation
Erik Erickson
Deviance
Pluralism
42. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
B.F. Skinner
Ethnocentrism
Deindividualism
Enculturation
43. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Latent Learning
Socialization
Conflict
Group
44. 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
Norms
Transference
Utopias
45. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Biases
Conformity
Social Cognition
Antropology
46. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Deviance
Values
Erik Erickson
Social Stratification
47. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Mores
Deindividualism
Social Solidarity
Archaeology
48. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Cultural Diffusion
Multicultural diversity
Correlational Research
Utopias
49. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Major Depressive Disorder
Cultural Diffusion
Folkways
Culture Clash
50. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Positive Sanctions
Social Cognition
Multicultural diversity
Status