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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Schizophrenia
Primary Groups
Punishment
Folkways
2. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Sterotypes
Punishment
Norms
Mores
3. 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.
Subcultures
Ethnocentrism
Institutions
Correlational Research
4. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Sterotypes
Archaeology
Secondary Groups
5. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Deindividualism
B.F. Skinner
Multicultural diversity
Schizophrenia
6. 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.
Sensitive Development Period
Subcultures
Archaeology
Latent Learning
7. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Mores
Social Cognition
Behavioral Psychology
Pluralistic Ignorance
8. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Subcultures
Carl Jung
Status
Positive Sanctions
9. 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
Social mobility
Norms
Deindividualism
10. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Sensitive Development Period
Ascribed Status
Institutions
Deindividualism
11. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Erik Erickson
Positive Sanctions
Primary Groups
Mores
12. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Group
Networks
Deviance
Paranoid Personality Disorder
13. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Social mobility
Laws
Antropology
Group
14. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Cultural Anthroplogy
Social Solidarity
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Conformity
15. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Major Depressive Disorder
Role
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Negative Sanctions
16. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Laws
Habituation
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Social mobility
17. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Biases
Abnormal Psychology
Cognitive Theory
Socialization
18. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Sigmund Freud
Subcultures
Reactionary Groups
Group Norms
19. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov
Utopias
Folkways
Conflict
20. 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.
Biases
Mores
Cultural Relativity
Carl Jung
21. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Prosocial Behavior
Social Solidarity
Positive Sanctions
Beliefs
22. 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.
Deviance
Negative Reinforcement
Cultural Relativity
Archaeology
23. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Humanistic Psychology
Physical Anthroplogy
Habituation
Deindividualism
24. 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.
Group
Social Stratification
Prejudice
Jean Piaget
25. 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
Secondary Groups
Sigmund Freud
Social Stratification
Carl Jung
26. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Punishment
Sensitive Development Period
Correlational Research
Behavioral Psychology
27. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Ascribed Status
Prejudice
Abnormal Psychology
Antropology
28. 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.
Transference
Social Stratification
Correlational Research
Physical Anthroplogy
29. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Cultural Diffusion
Prejudice
Utopias
Erik Erickson
30. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Perception
Archaeology
Behavioral Psychology
Erik Erickson
31. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Identity crisis
Laws
Mores
Deindividualism
32. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Carl Jung
Transference
Humanistic Psychology
Paranoid Personality Disorder
33. 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
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Cognitive Theory
Enculturation
34. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Sterotypes
Prejudice
Cultural Anthroplogy
Social Solidarity
35. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Values
Sensitive Development Period
Split Brain
Habituation
36. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Sterotypes
Ivan Pavlov
Sigmund Freud
Punishment
37. 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
Status
Ivan Pavlov
Primary Groups
38. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Sterotypes
Identity crisis
Humanistic Psychology
Folkways
39. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
B.F. Skinner
Group
Pluralism
Dominant Cultures
40. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Social Cognition
Utopias
Identity Formation
Social Solidarity
41. 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
Norms
Social Stratification
Social mobility
Laws
42. 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.
Social Stratification
Split Brain
Habituation
Laws
43. 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
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Humanistic Psychology
Cultural Diffusion
Group Norms
44. 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
Habituation
Socialization
Jean Piaget
45. 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
Beliefs
Group
Social Solidarity
B.F. Skinner
46. 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
Ascribed Status
Enculturation
Sigmund Freud
47. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Serial-Position Effect
Institutions
Schizophrenia
Socialization
48. 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
Major Depressive Disorder
Cultural Anthroplogy
Culture Clash
Negative Sanctions
49. 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.
Primary Groups
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Ethnocentrism
Ascribed Status
50. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Cultural Diffusion
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Primary Groups
Culture Clash
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