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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Conflict
Behavioral Psychology
Cognitive Theory
Multicultural diversity
2. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Reactionary Groups
Punishment
Punishment
Behavioral Psychology
3. 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
Negative Sanctions
Social Stratification
Negative Reinforcement
Pluralism
4. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Laws
Values
Folkways
Ascribed Status
5. 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.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Prejudice
Ethnocentrism
Biases
6. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Socialization
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Secondary Groups
Folkways
7. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Transference
Socialization
Enculturation
Correlational Research
8. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Negative Reinforcement
Norms
Status
Networks
9. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
B.F. Skinner
Networks
Prejudice
Deindividualism
10. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Secondary Groups
Antropology
Social Stratification
Status
11. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Positive Sanctions
Deindividualism
Social Solidarity
Prosocial Behavior
12. 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
Pluralism
Negative Reinforcement
Split Brain
Norms
13. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Group Norms
Habituation
Abnormal Psychology
Conflict
14. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Transference
Primary Groups
Cultural Relativity
Deindividualism
15. 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
Primary Groups
Pluralistic Ignorance
Ascribed Status
Sigmund Freud
16. 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.
Cultural Relativity
Cognitive Theory
Cultural Anthroplogy
Transference
17. 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
Negative Reinforcement
Schizophrenia
Social Stratification
Cultural Anthroplogy
18. 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
Enculturation
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.
Abnormal Psychology
Secondary Groups
Physical Anthroplogy
Social Solidarity
20. 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.
Antropology
Primary Groups
Antropology
Utopias
21. 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.
Primary Groups
Norms
Prejudice
Antropology
22. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Status
Cognitive Theory
Social Cognition
Habituation
23. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Sensitive Development Period
Humanistic Psychology
Ideals
Multicultural diversity
24. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Jean Piaget
Conflict
Pluralistic Ignorance
Pluralism
25. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Correlational Research
Deindividualism
Identity crisis
Punishment
26. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Positive Sanctions
Sterotypes
Prosocial Behavior
Reactionary Groups
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
Physical Anthroplogy
Socialization
Serial-Position Effect
Sigmund Freud
28. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Socialization
Schizophrenia
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Status
29. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Abnormal Psychology
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Prejudice
Laws
30. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Dominant Cultures
Prosocial Behavior
Sterotypes
Dissociative Identity Disorder
31. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Norms
Positive Sanctions
Habituation
Sterotypes
32. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Institutions
Correlational Research
Classical Conditioning
Serial-Position Effect
33. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Mores
Humanistic Psychology
Humanistic Psychology
Folkways
34. 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
Cultural Anthroplogy
Negative Reinforcement
Negative Sanctions
35. 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
Sensitive Development Period
Utopias
Social Stratification
Antropology
36. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Negative Reinforcement
Subcultures
Institutions
Primary Groups
37. 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
Conformity
Enculturation
Multicultural diversity
38. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
B.F. Skinner
Ivan Pavlov
Carl Jung
Ascribed Status
39. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Jean Piaget
Institutions
Sigmund Freud
Group
40. 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 mobility
Behavioral Psychology
Dominant Cultures
Sensitive Development Period
41. 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
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Carl Jung
Role
42. 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.
Role
Conformity
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Cultural Relativity
43. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Conflict
Sterotypes
Major Depressive Disorder
Group
44. 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'.
Archaeology
Subcultures
Reactionary Groups
Role
45. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Archaeology
Identity crisis
Laws
Reactionary Groups
46. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Multicultural diversity
Culture Clash
Archaeology
Split Brain
47. 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
Split Brain
Beliefs
Identity Formation
Values
48. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Behavioral Psychology
Social Stratification
Ascribed Status
Multicultural diversity
49. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Biases
Conformity
Social Cognition
Utopias
50. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Social Stratification
Deviance
Ethnocentrism
Dissociative Identity Disorder