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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Cultural Diffusion
Pluralistic Ignorance
Schizophrenia
Networks
2. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Laws
Mores
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
3. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Negative Sanctions
Multicultural diversity
Social Stratification
Physical Anthroplogy
4. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Social Solidarity
Pluralistic Ignorance
Positive Sanctions
Status
5. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Multicultural diversity
Pluralistic Ignorance
Humanistic Psychology
Laws
6. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Split Brain
Deindividualism
Ivan Pavlov
Conformity
7. 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
Transference
Negative Reinforcement
B.F. Skinner
Behavioral Psychology
8. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Networks
Identity crisis
Secondary Groups
Negative Sanctions
9. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Folkways
Identity crisis
Enculturation
B.F. Skinner
10. 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
Institutions
Correlational Research
Carl Jung
Archaeology
11. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Social mobility
Major Depressive Disorder
Transference
Pluralism
12. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Role
Cultural Diffusion
Sensitive Development Period
Social Cognition
13. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Transference
Punishment
Values
Norms
14. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Jean Piaget
Sensitive Development Period
Abnormal Psychology
Prosocial Behavior
15. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
B.F. Skinner
Cultural Diffusion
Identity Formation
Social mobility
16. Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis - 1856-1939; Field: psychoanalytic - personality; Contributions: id/ego/superego - reality and pleasure principles - ego ide
Conformity
Sigmund Freud
Correlational Research
Sterotypes
17. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Conflict
Sigmund Freud
Secondary Groups
18. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Group Norms
Role
Identity crisis
Status
19. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Latent Learning
Culture Clash
Social Solidarity
Pluralistic Ignorance
20. 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.
Perception
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Diffusion
Reactionary Groups
21. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Jean Piaget
Classical Conditioning
Positive Sanctions
Ascribed Status
22. Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis - 1856-1939; Field: psychoanalytic - personality; Contributions: id/ego/superego - reality and pleasure principles - ego ide
Punishment
Sigmund Freud
Social mobility
Habituation
23. 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.
Norms
Erik Erickson
Ethnocentrism
Correlational Research
24. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Archaeology
Abnormal Psychology
Antropology
Schizophrenia
25. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Major Depressive Disorder
Cultural Relativity
Identity crisis
26. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Sensitive Development Period
Ascribed Status
Secondary Groups
Institutions
27. 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
Biases
Sigmund Freud
Serial-Position Effect
Socialization
28. 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'.
Beliefs
Biases
Reactionary Groups
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
29. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Deindividualism
Archaeology
Norms
Classical Conditioning
30. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Carl Jung
Ivan Pavlov
Utopias
Values
31. 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.
Conflict
Negative Reinforcement
Correlational Research
Carl Jung
32. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Role
Prosocial Behavior
Values
Social Cognition
33. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Utopias
Values
Cultural Relativity
Transference
34. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Subcultures
Secondary Groups
Perception
Pluralistic Ignorance
35. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Latent Learning
Negative Sanctions
Positive Sanctions
Humanistic Psychology
36. 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
Dominant Cultures
Cultural Relativity
Ethnocentrism
37. 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
Laws
Values
B.F. Skinner
Norms
38. 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.
Cognitive Theory
Primary Groups
Networks
Laws
39. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov
Ascribed Status
Utopias
Laws
40. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Laws
Mores
Pluralism
41. 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
Reactionary Groups
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Serial-Position Effect
Beliefs
42. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Erik Erickson
Networks
Socialization
Laws
43. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Prosocial Behavior
Folkways
Ivan Pavlov
Subcultures
44. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Transference
Conflict
Carl Jung
Ethnocentrism
45. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Punishment
Group
Conformity
Dominant Cultures
46. 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.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Abnormal Psychology
Group Norms
Biases
47. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Abnormal Psychology
Networks
Physical Anthroplogy
Sensitive Development Period
48. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Subcultures
Ascribed Status
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Social mobility
49. 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
Pluralistic Ignorance
Social Stratification
Positive Sanctions
Ideals
50. 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
Humanistic Psychology
Major Depressive Disorder
Social Cognition
Negative Sanctions