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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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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.
Negative Sanctions
Social mobility
Laws
Secondary Groups
2. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Secondary Groups
Pluralism
Sensitive Development Period
Sigmund Freud
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.
Serial-Position Effect
Ideals
Primary Groups
Positive Sanctions
4. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Cultural Anthroplogy
Sensitive Development Period
Social Solidarity
Paranoid Personality Disorder
5. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Socialization
Archaeology
Institutions
Networks
6. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Folkways
Physical Anthroplogy
Mores
Negative Sanctions
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.
Prejudice
Ivan Pavlov
Multicultural diversity
Sensitive Development Period
8. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Archaeology
Cultural Relativity
Identity crisis
Habituation
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.
Networks
Split Brain
Prejudice
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
10. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Behavioral Psychology
Culture Clash
Culture Clash
Status
11. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Pluralism
B.F. Skinner
Ivan Pavlov
Behavioral Psychology
12. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Mores
Secondary Groups
Social mobility
Sigmund Freud
13. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Social Cognition
Ideals
Classical Conditioning
14. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Sigmund Freud
Serial-Position Effect
B.F. Skinner
Pluralistic Ignorance
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.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Laws
Classical Conditioning
Institutions
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.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Ethnocentrism
Values
Biases
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.
Ideals
B.F. Skinner
Multicultural diversity
Cultural Anthroplogy
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.
Reactionary Groups
Archaeology
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Sensitive Development Period
19. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Punishment
Ideals
Prosocial Behavior
Reactionary Groups
20. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Humanistic Psychology
Socialization
Ideals
Social Cognition
21. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Split Brain
Reactionary Groups
Deindividualism
Conformity
22. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Multicultural diversity
Biases
Secondary Groups
Group Norms
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.
Laws
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Habituation
Major Depressive Disorder
24. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Social Stratification
Perception
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Latent Learning
25. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Sterotypes
Classical Conditioning
Norms
Laws
26. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth
Culture Clash
Deviance
Humanistic Psychology
Antropology
27. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Sterotypes
Antropology
Social Cognition
Pluralistic Ignorance
28. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Enculturation
Conflict
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Utopias
29. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov
Norms
Archaeology
B.F. Skinner
30. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Positive Sanctions
Cognitive Theory
Behavioral Psychology
Split Brain
31. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Transference
Laws
Biases
Multicultural diversity
32. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Habituation
Latent Learning
Mores
33. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Physical Anthroplogy
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Networks
Cognitive Theory
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
Classical Conditioning
Carl Jung
Negative Reinforcement
Serial-Position Effect
35. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Schizophrenia
Laws
Culture Clash
Dominant Cultures
36. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Group
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Positive Sanctions
Folkways
37. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Ascribed Status
Positive Sanctions
Multicultural diversity
Paranoid Personality Disorder
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.
Sigmund Freud
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Correlational Research
Sensitive Development Period
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
Group
Major Depressive Disorder
Transference
Humanistic Psychology
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
Beliefs
Serial-Position Effect
Ethnocentrism
Identity Formation
41. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Pluralism
Latent Learning
Schizophrenia
Abnormal Psychology
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.
Antropology
Cultural Diffusion
Social Solidarity
Classical Conditioning
43. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Erik Erickson
Split Brain
Latent Learning
Enculturation
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
Perception
Cultural Diffusion
Identity Formation
Correlational Research
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
Major Depressive Disorder
Social Stratification
Antropology
Archaeology
46. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Social mobility
Negative Reinforcement
Cultural Diffusion
47. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Laws
Secondary Groups
Multicultural diversity
Cultural Anthroplogy
48. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Behavioral Psychology
Networks
Negative Reinforcement
Folkways
49. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Deindividualism
Utopias
Pluralistic Ignorance
Primary Groups
50. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Pluralistic Ignorance
Positive Sanctions
Ideals