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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II

Subject : humanities
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1. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.






2. 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.






3. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.






4. 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






5. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.






6. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.






7. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.






8. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.






9. Specific ideas that people hold to be true






10. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.






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.






12. 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.






13. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.






14. 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.






15. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.






16. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding






17. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.






18. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms






19. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.






20. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)






21. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding






22. Specific ideas that people hold to be true






23. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth






24. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.






25. 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.






26. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.






27. Becoming aware of something via the senses






28. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.






29. 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






30. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.






31. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms






32. 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.






33. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.






34. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.






35. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.






36. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems






37. 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






38. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.






39. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.






40. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit






41. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.






42. Unique characteristics of ethics groups






43. Unique characteristics of ethics groups






44. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.






45. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone






46. 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.






47. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)






48. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.






49. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.






50. 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.







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