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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Multicultural diversity
Deviance
B.F. Skinner
Role
2. 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
Conflict
Social Stratification
Deviance
Correlational Research
3. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Pluralistic Ignorance
Physical Anthroplogy
Pluralism
Status
4. 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
Dominant Cultures
Values
Transference
Carl Jung
5. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Jean Piaget
Laws
Sterotypes
Institutions
6. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Correlational Research
Role
Beliefs
Cognitive Theory
7. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Social Solidarity
Group
Deindividualism
Primary Groups
8. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Mores
Deviance
Dominant Cultures
Cultural Diffusion
9. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Classical Conditioning
Deviance
B.F. Skinner
Multicultural diversity
10. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Carl Jung
Serial-Position Effect
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Conformity
11. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Serial-Position Effect
Antropology
Social Cognition
Enculturation
12. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Humanistic Psychology
Biases
Major Depressive Disorder
Ivan Pavlov
13. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Secondary Groups
Beliefs
Role
Schizophrenia
14. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Carl Jung
Behavioral Psychology
Conformity
Folkways
15. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Identity Formation
Transference
Socialization
Cultural Anthroplogy
16. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Negative Reinforcement
Positive Sanctions
Abnormal Psychology
Culture Clash
17. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Networks
Cognitive Theory
Sensitive Development Period
Abnormal Psychology
18. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Archaeology
Status
Socialization
Transference
19. 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
Abnormal Psychology
Sigmund Freud
Deviance
Humanistic Psychology
20. 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.
Negative Sanctions
Positive Sanctions
Correlational Research
Ascribed Status
21. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Conformity
Behavioral Psychology
Major Depressive Disorder
Institutions
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
Beliefs
Identity Formation
Perception
Cultural Relativity
23. 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
Social Stratification
Ideals
Erik Erickson
Major Depressive Disorder
24. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Deviance
Laws
Sigmund Freud
B.F. Skinner
25. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Negative Sanctions
Dominant Cultures
Punishment
Jean Piaget
26. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Sensitive Development Period
Networks
Social Stratification
Laws
27. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Behavioral Psychology
Pluralism
Prosocial Behavior
Primary Groups
28. 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.
Split Brain
Laws
Folkways
Ideals
29. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Multicultural diversity
Ideals
Habituation
Group
30. 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.
Subcultures
Culture Clash
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Negative Reinforcement
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.
Transference
Split Brain
Dominant Cultures
Norms
32. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Ethnocentrism
Primary Groups
Erik Erickson
Cognitive Theory
33. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Conformity
Ivan Pavlov
Negative Reinforcement
Role
34. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Status
Positive Sanctions
Institutions
Schizophrenia
35. 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.
Carl Jung
Archaeology
Reactionary Groups
Ideals
36. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Punishment
Erik Erickson
Subcultures
Perception
37. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Social Stratification
Behavioral Psychology
Social mobility
Paranoid Personality Disorder
38. 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
Culture Clash
Schizophrenia
Punishment
Identity Formation
39. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Conflict
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Schizophrenia
Deindividualism
40. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Behavioral Psychology
Beliefs
Enculturation
Status
41. 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
Sensitive Development Period
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Subcultures
42. 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
Erik Erickson
Biases
Correlational Research
43. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Secondary Groups
Norms
Abnormal Psychology
Group
44. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Multicultural diversity
Split Brain
Cultural Anthroplogy
Transference
45. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Serial-Position Effect
Archaeology
Networks
Negative Reinforcement
46. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Classical Conditioning
Pluralism
Deviance
Cultural Relativity
47. 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
Classical Conditioning
Status
Norms
Laws
48. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Abnormal Psychology
Social Stratification
Archaeology
Subcultures
49. 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.
Social Stratification
Split Brain
Ethnocentrism
Group Norms
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
Mores
Major Depressive Disorder
Multicultural diversity
Conformity