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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Physical Anthroplogy
Identity Formation
Social mobility
Habituation
2. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Cognitive Theory
Abnormal Psychology
Ivan Pavlov
Abnormal Psychology
3. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Schizophrenia
Role
Secondary Groups
Conformity
4. 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.
Multicultural diversity
Social Stratification
Institutions
Secondary Groups
5. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth
Networks
Humanistic Psychology
B.F. Skinner
Perception
6. 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.
Cognitive Theory
Primary Groups
Archaeology
Biases
7. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Social mobility
Humanistic Psychology
Subcultures
Identity Formation
8. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Antropology
Latent Learning
Archaeology
Dissociative Identity Disorder
9. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Latent Learning
Prosocial Behavior
Perception
Status
10. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Identity crisis
Sterotypes
Conformity
Social Solidarity
11. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Primary Groups
Cultural Relativity
Status
Role
12. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Enculturation
Cultural Relativity
Beliefs
Dissociative Identity Disorder
13. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Values
Social Cognition
Group
Conflict
14. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Social mobility
Major Depressive Disorder
Schizophrenia
Mores
15. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Subcultures
Deindividualism
Major Depressive Disorder
Schizophrenia
16. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Correlational Research
Identity crisis
Group Norms
Dissociative Identity Disorder
17. 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
Norms
Pluralistic Ignorance
Split Brain
Group Norms
18. 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.
Identity Formation
Cultural Anthroplogy
Sigmund Freud
Prejudice
19. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Abnormal Psychology
Culture Clash
Mores
Dominant Cultures
20. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Laws
Positive Sanctions
Networks
Social Cognition
21. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
B.F. Skinner
Behavioral Psychology
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Classical Conditioning
22. 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
Serial-Position Effect
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Networks
Identity Formation
23. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Multicultural diversity
Cultural Diffusion
Negative Reinforcement
Conflict
24. 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
Deindividualism
Serial-Position Effect
Correlational Research
25. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Status
Ethnocentrism
Utopias
Socialization
26. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Role
Networks
Latent Learning
27. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Networks
Conflict
Mores
Institutions
28. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Cultural Diffusion
Pluralism
Erik Erickson
29. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Negative Sanctions
Classical Conditioning
Values
Reactionary Groups
30. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Utopias
Institutions
Deindividualism
Ascribed Status
31. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Serial-Position Effect
Reactionary Groups
Social Stratification
Socialization
32. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Conflict
Negative Reinforcement
Conformity
Social Cognition
33. 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.
Schizophrenia
Transference
Social mobility
Negative Reinforcement
34. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Social Solidarity
Erik Erickson
Cultural Anthroplogy
35. 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
Carl Jung
Cultural Diffusion
Cognitive Theory
Sterotypes
36. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Social Solidarity
Group
Reactionary Groups
Mores
37. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Primary Groups
Socialization
Punishment
Habituation
38. 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
Norms
Sensitive Development Period
Correlational Research
39. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Ascribed Status
Abnormal Psychology
Transference
Laws
40. 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
Group
Carl Jung
Laws
41. 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
Prejudice
Prosocial Behavior
Reactionary Groups
42. 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.
Sterotypes
Abnormal Psychology
Biases
Beliefs
43. 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.
Role
Cultural Anthroplogy
Dominant Cultures
Correlational Research
44. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Correlational Research
Enculturation
Utopias
Split Brain
45. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)
Secondary Groups
Erik Erickson
Classical Conditioning
Norms
46. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Behavioral Psychology
Prosocial Behavior
Sterotypes
Mores
47. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Ethnocentrism
Jean Piaget
Behavioral Psychology
Archaeology
48. 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
Serial-Position Effect
Subcultures
Values
49. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Split Brain
Social Stratification
Subcultures
Identity crisis
50. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Social Solidarity
Habituation
Identity Formation
Deindividualism