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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. 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
Major Depressive Disorder
Transference
Physical Anthroplogy
2. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Carl Jung
Transference
Cultural Relativity
Ideals
3. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Negative Sanctions
Latent Learning
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Enculturation
4. 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
Reactionary Groups
Conformity
Norms
5. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Positive Sanctions
Pluralistic Ignorance
Cultural Diffusion
Sensitive Development Period
6. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Negative Sanctions
Transference
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Reactionary Groups
7. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Behavioral Psychology
Laws
Perception
8. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Culture Clash
Norms
Latent Learning
Norms
9. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Pluralistic Ignorance
Reactionary Groups
Jean Piaget
Status
10. 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
Utopias
Negative Sanctions
Folkways
11. 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.
Ivan Pavlov
Mores
Reactionary Groups
Split Brain
12. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Perception
Physical Anthroplogy
Subcultures
13. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Biases
Conflict
Social Cognition
14. 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
Biases
Serial-Position Effect
B.F. Skinner
Behavioral Psychology
15. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Habituation
Schizophrenia
Archaeology
Ascribed Status
16. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Prosocial Behavior
Secondary Groups
Reactionary Groups
Perception
17. 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.
Institutions
Carl Jung
Physical Anthroplogy
Biases
18. 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
Jean Piaget
Identity Formation
Mores
Latent Learning
19. 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.
Habituation
Reactionary Groups
Mores
Negative Reinforcement
20. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Schizophrenia
Subcultures
Folkways
Negative Sanctions
21. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Sensitive Development Period
Ethnocentrism
B.F. Skinner
Cognitive Theory
22. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Folkways
Ideals
Social Stratification
Positive Sanctions
23. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Beliefs
Pluralistic Ignorance
Abnormal Psychology
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
24. 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.
Negative Sanctions
Prejudice
Primary Groups
Cognitive Theory
25. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Behavioral Psychology
Group Norms
Split Brain
Folkways
26. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Social Cognition
Subcultures
Humanistic Psychology
Physical Anthroplogy
27. 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
Cultural Relativity
Deviance
Dominant Cultures
Carl Jung
28. 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.
Physical Anthroplogy
Culture Clash
Pluralism
Status
29. 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
Sterotypes
Networks
Mores
Major Depressive Disorder
30. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Mores
Jean Piaget
Cultural Anthroplogy
Role
31. 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.
Split Brain
Serial-Position Effect
B.F. Skinner
Behavioral Psychology
32. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Role
Deindividualism
Group
Major Depressive Disorder
33. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Perception
Primary Groups
Sensitive Development Period
Habituation
34. 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.
Prosocial Behavior
Deindividualism
Positive Sanctions
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
35. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov
Social Stratification
Group Norms
Social Stratification
36. 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
Dominant Cultures
Humanistic Psychology
Social Solidarity
37. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Pluralism
Latent Learning
Identity crisis
Cultural Anthroplogy
38. 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.
Group Norms
Institutions
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Cultural Relativity
39. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Deviance
Physical Anthroplogy
Cultural Relativity
Institutions
40. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Ideals
Identity crisis
Prosocial Behavior
41. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Prejudice
Socialization
Utopias
Paranoid Personality Disorder
42. 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
Correlational Research
Correlational Research
Perception
43. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Schizophrenia
Group Norms
Identity Formation
Mores
44. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.
Social mobility
Social Stratification
B.F. Skinner
Networks
45. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Group Norms
Jean Piaget
Deviance
Primary Groups
46. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Networks
Pluralistic Ignorance
Jean Piaget
Carl Jung
47. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Beliefs
Utopias
Ivan Pavlov
Positive Sanctions
48. 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
Carl Jung
Social Stratification
Networks
Conformity
49. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Split Brain
Identity Formation
Serial-Position Effect
Latent Learning
50. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Split Brain
Secondary Groups
Subcultures
Prosocial Behavior