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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Folkways
Abnormal Psychology
Cognitive Theory
Ethnocentrism
2. 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
Classical Conditioning
Carl Jung
Social Solidarity
Deindividualism
3. 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'.
Laws
Enculturation
Reactionary Groups
Conformity
4. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Perception
Laws
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Punishment
5. 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.
Ethnocentrism
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Folkways
Enculturation
6. The rules and procedures that provide incentives for political behavior - thereby shaping politics - organizations or activities that are self-perpetuating and valued for their own sake.
Dominant Cultures
Cognitive Theory
Institutions
Archaeology
7. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Ivan Pavlov
Conformity
Subcultures
8. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Habituation
Jean Piaget
Sterotypes
Abnormal Psychology
9. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Socialization
Cultural Anthroplogy
Beliefs
Social mobility
10. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Ideals
Dominant Cultures
Enculturation
Archaeology
11. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)
Identity Formation
Biases
Major Depressive Disorder
Erik Erickson
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.
Identity crisis
Conformity
Negative Reinforcement
Pluralism
13. 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
Folkways
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Norms
Physical Anthroplogy
14. 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
Group
B.F. Skinner
Status
Transference
15. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Ascribed Status
Jean Piaget
Deviance
Physical Anthroplogy
16. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Jean Piaget
Deindividualism
Latent Learning
Carl Jung
17. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Social Stratification
Prejudice
Biases
Pluralism
18. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Secondary Groups
Pluralism
Prejudice
Social Cognition
19. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Schizophrenia
Erik Erickson
Social Stratification
Cultural Diffusion
20. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Social Stratification
Ascribed Status
Utopias
Primary Groups
21. 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.
Biases
Sensitive Development Period
Folkways
Habituation
22. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Folkways
Multicultural diversity
Habituation
Secondary Groups
23. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Culture Clash
Deviance
Deindividualism
Mores
24. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Habituation
Secondary Groups
Social Solidarity
Social Solidarity
25. 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 mobility
Biases
Values
Transference
26. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Mores
Values
Prosocial Behavior
Negative Sanctions
27. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Behavioral Psychology
Correlational Research
Transference
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
28. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Negative Sanctions
Classical Conditioning
Social Stratification
Values
29. 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.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Classical Conditioning
Group
Culture Clash
30. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Transference
Physical Anthroplogy
Correlational Research
Role
31. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Social Stratification
Enculturation
Mores
Cultural Diffusion
32. 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
Primary Groups
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Pluralistic Ignorance
Major Depressive Disorder
33. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Abnormal Psychology
Cognitive Theory
Utopias
34. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Deviance
Group
Subcultures
35. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Social Stratification
Correlational Research
Identity crisis
Abnormal Psychology
36. 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
Utopias
Enculturation
B.F. Skinner
Social Stratification
37. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Folkways
Perception
Cultural Anthroplogy
Ascribed Status
38. The rules and procedures that provide incentives for political behavior - thereby shaping politics - organizations or activities that are self-perpetuating and valued for their own sake.
Institutions
Norms
Humanistic Psychology
Social Stratification
39. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Dominant Cultures
Prejudice
Subcultures
Sterotypes
40. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Deindividualism
Social Solidarity
Institutions
41. 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
Sigmund Freud
Social mobility
Archaeology
Correlational Research
42. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Social Cognition
Serial-Position Effect
Abnormal Psychology
Social Stratification
43. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Antropology
Carl Jung
Deviance
Cultural Anthroplogy
44. 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.
Ideals
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Social Stratification
Humanistic Psychology
45. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.
Deindividualism
Sigmund Freud
Social mobility
Prosocial Behavior
46. 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.
Culture Clash
Positive Sanctions
Archaeology
Archaeology
47. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Social Stratification
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Perception
Institutions
48. 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.
Humanistic Psychology
Prejudice
Cultural Anthroplogy
Transference
49. 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
Behavioral Psychology
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Secondary Groups
50. 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
Schizophrenia
Ascribed Status
Dissociative Identity Disorder
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