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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Humanistic Psychology
Secondary Groups
Sterotypes
Subcultures
2. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Latent Learning
Values
Classical Conditioning
Folkways
3. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth
Major Depressive Disorder
Schizophrenia
Negative Sanctions
Humanistic Psychology
4. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Classical Conditioning
B.F. Skinner
Antropology
Cognitive Theory
5. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Mores
Humanistic Psychology
Status
Sensitive Development Period
6. 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
Classical Conditioning
Identity Formation
Pluralistic Ignorance
Split Brain
7. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Conformity
Primary Groups
Laws
Ethnocentrism
8. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Behavioral Psychology
Secondary Groups
Multicultural diversity
Social Solidarity
9. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Networks
Pluralism
Habituation
Sigmund Freud
10. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Split Brain
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Beliefs
Identity Formation
11. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Ethnocentrism
Multicultural diversity
Sensitive Development Period
Humanistic Psychology
12. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Cognitive Theory
Social Stratification
Prosocial Behavior
Status
13. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.
Networks
Carl Jung
Social mobility
Negative Reinforcement
14. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Carl Jung
Identity Formation
Enculturation
Transference
15. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Cognitive Theory
Pluralism
Dominant Cultures
Habituation
16. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Archaeology
Values
Conformity
Utopias
17. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Carl Jung
Social Stratification
Negative Sanctions
Culture Clash
18. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Laws
Dominant Cultures
Split Brain
19. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Deindividualism
Conformity
Enculturation
Beliefs
20. 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.
Jean Piaget
Antropology
Mores
Negative Reinforcement
21. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Culture Clash
Laws
Social Stratification
Mores
22. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Deindividualism
Utopias
Secondary Groups
Social Stratification
23. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Conformity
B.F. Skinner
Pluralism
Cognitive Theory
24. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Group Norms
Jean Piaget
Prosocial Behavior
Schizophrenia
25. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
B.F. Skinner
Negative Reinforcement
Enculturation
Cognitive Theory
26. 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.
Transference
Socialization
Reactionary Groups
Correlational Research
27. 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
Cultural Diffusion
Norms
Cultural Anthroplogy
28. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Culture Clash
Prejudice
Multicultural diversity
Socialization
29. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Split Brain
Status
Schizophrenia
Punishment
30. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Latent Learning
Social Stratification
Conformity
B.F. Skinner
31. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Folkways
Serial-Position Effect
Mores
Punishment
32. 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
Utopias
Perception
Negative Sanctions
Group Norms
33. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Biases
Perception
Subcultures
Ascribed Status
34. 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
Subcultures
Behavioral Psychology
Institutions
35. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Enculturation
Positive Sanctions
Archaeology
Status
36. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Ascribed Status
Culture Clash
Social mobility
Carl Jung
37. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Norms
Ideals
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Cultural Anthroplogy
38. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Status
Ivan Pavlov
Habituation
Jean Piaget
39. 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.
Social Stratification
Cultural Relativity
Sensitive Development Period
Ethnocentrism
40. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Ivan Pavlov
Behavioral Psychology
Identity crisis
Conflict
41. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
B.F. Skinner
Archaeology
Laws
Punishment
42. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Ascribed Status
Humanistic Psychology
Dominant Cultures
43. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Enculturation
Prosocial Behavior
Socialization
Ideals
44. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Cognitive Theory
Prejudice
Secondary Groups
45. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Sigmund Freud
Social Stratification
Sensitive Development Period
Habituation
46. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Folkways
Schizophrenia
Ideals
Positive Sanctions
47. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Subcultures
Identity crisis
Reactionary Groups
Socialization
48. 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.
Social Cognition
Folkways
Biases
Enculturation
49. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Latent Learning
Sigmund Freud
Deviance
Secondary Groups
50. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)
Culture Clash
Institutions
Utopias
Erik Erickson
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