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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Dominant Cultures
Behavioral Psychology
Perception
Values
2. 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.
Social mobility
Prejudice
Conflict
Conflict
3. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Perception
Cultural Relativity
Physical Anthroplogy
Institutions
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.
Dominant Cultures
Pluralism
Cognitive Theory
Antropology
5. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Social Stratification
Identity crisis
Deviance
Group Norms
6. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Secondary Groups
Utopias
Cultural Anthroplogy
Status
7. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Schizophrenia
Ivan Pavlov
Carl Jung
Humanistic Psychology
8. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Biases
Pluralistic Ignorance
Jean Piaget
Multicultural diversity
9. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Physical Anthroplogy
Deindividualism
Schizophrenia
Paranoid Personality Disorder
10. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Biases
Socialization
Sigmund Freud
Cognitive Theory
11. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Laws
Cultural Diffusion
Carl Jung
Utopias
12. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Subcultures
Cultural Diffusion
Sensitive Development Period
13. 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
Laws
Pluralistic Ignorance
Status
14. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Group
Pluralistic Ignorance
Negative Reinforcement
Cognitive Theory
15. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Social Stratification
Networks
Laws
Values
16. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Social Cognition
Social Solidarity
Values
Pluralism
17. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Erik Erickson
Prosocial Behavior
Jean Piaget
Folkways
18. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Perception
Networks
Socialization
Group
19. 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
Deviance
Identity Formation
Social Stratification
20. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Abnormal Psychology
Negative Sanctions
Group Norms
Social mobility
21. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Primary Groups
Mores
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Dissociative Identity Disorder
22. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Multicultural diversity
Culture Clash
Institutions
Sterotypes
23. 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
Group
Reactionary Groups
Major Depressive Disorder
Cultural Anthroplogy
24. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Archaeology
Group
Mores
Conflict
25. 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.
Negative Reinforcement
Ideals
B.F. Skinner
Punishment
26. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Negative Reinforcement
Social Solidarity
Role
Identity crisis
27. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Beliefs
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Identity Formation
Antropology
28. 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
Major Depressive Disorder
Habituation
Norms
Paranoid Personality Disorder
29. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Schizophrenia
Role
Serial-Position Effect
Ethnocentrism
30. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Biases
Ivan Pavlov
Behavioral Psychology
Conflict
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.
Correlational Research
Pluralism
Abnormal Psychology
Negative Sanctions
32. 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.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Laws
Folkways
Culture Clash
33. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth
Humanistic Psychology
Cultural Relativity
Carl Jung
Conflict
34. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Socialization
Antropology
Habituation
B.F. Skinner
35. 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.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Negative Reinforcement
Serial-Position Effect
Conformity
36. 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
Social mobility
Schizophrenia
Group
37. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Erik Erickson
Identity crisis
Pluralistic Ignorance
Archaeology
38. 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.
Negative Reinforcement
Identity Formation
Jean Piaget
Cognitive Theory
39. 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.
Erik Erickson
Social Stratification
Split Brain
Social Solidarity
40. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Punishment
Punishment
Identity Formation
Cultural Anthroplogy
41. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.
Sigmund Freud
Ideals
Punishment
Social mobility
42. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Perception
Values
Cultural Diffusion
Schizophrenia
43. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Social Stratification
Identity Formation
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Transference
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'.
Reactionary Groups
Laws
Sigmund Freud
Erik Erickson
45. 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
Prosocial Behavior
Schizophrenia
Group Norms
Serial-Position Effect
46. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Antropology
Socialization
Networks
Prosocial Behavior
47. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Habituation
Conformity
Deviance
Beliefs
48. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Social Stratification
Perception
Primary Groups
Group Norms
49. 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
Social Solidarity
Serial-Position Effect
Culture Clash
Biases
50. 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.
Identity Formation
Correlational Research
Ascribed Status
Reactionary Groups