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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Social Stratification
Physical Anthroplogy
Biases
Multicultural diversity
2. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Negative Sanctions
Conflict
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Cultural Anthroplogy
3. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Enculturation
Social Solidarity
Perception
Folkways
4. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Prosocial Behavior
Status
Perception
Ascribed Status
5. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Enculturation
Secondary Groups
Prosocial Behavior
Jean Piaget
6. 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
Perception
Serial-Position Effect
Socialization
Abnormal Psychology
7. 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.
Schizophrenia
Transference
Culture Clash
Status
8. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Beliefs
Secondary Groups
Carl Jung
Positive Sanctions
9. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Role
Sigmund Freud
Conformity
Social Stratification
10. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Cultural Diffusion
Deviance
Cultural Anthroplogy
Reactionary Groups
11. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)
Erik Erickson
Role
Transference
Punishment
12. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Punishment
Cultural Relativity
Socialization
Behavioral Psychology
13. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Habituation
Laws
Cognitive Theory
Deindividualism
14. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Values
Prejudice
Values
Sterotypes
15. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Perception
Paranoid Personality Disorder
16. 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
Schizophrenia
Behavioral Psychology
Carl Jung
Major Depressive Disorder
17. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Abnormal Psychology
Dominant Cultures
Split Brain
Humanistic Psychology
18. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Schizophrenia
Norms
Sterotypes
Social Cognition
19. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Social Cognition
Group
Utopias
Transference
20. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Negative Sanctions
B.F. Skinner
Physical Anthroplogy
21. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Negative Sanctions
Sterotypes
Positive Sanctions
Social Cognition
22. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Carl Jung
Role
Cultural Relativity
Social mobility
23. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Cognitive Theory
Ethnocentrism
Archaeology
Subcultures
24. 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'.
Deindividualism
Erik Erickson
Pluralism
Reactionary Groups
25. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Punishment
Ivan Pavlov
Antropology
26. 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
Pluralism
Multicultural diversity
Sigmund Freud
Social Stratification
27. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Carl Jung
Social Solidarity
Classical Conditioning
Negative Reinforcement
28. 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
Behavioral Psychology
Social Stratification
Group
29. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Sensitive Development Period
Values
Antropology
Latent Learning
30. 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
Identity Formation
Prosocial Behavior
Negative Reinforcement
Ideals
31. 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.
Identity crisis
Cultural Relativity
Transference
Identity Formation
32. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Split Brain
Reactionary Groups
Prejudice
Conflict
33. 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.
Deviance
Ideals
Subcultures
Conflict
34. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Ideals
Pluralistic Ignorance
Sigmund Freud
Sterotypes
35. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Split Brain
Carl Jung
Subcultures
Social mobility
36. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Ascribed Status
Erik Erickson
Social Solidarity
Folkways
37. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Networks
Culture Clash
Latent Learning
38. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Group
Group
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Cultural Diffusion
39. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Prejudice
Behavioral Psychology
Correlational Research
Classical Conditioning
40. 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
Cognitive Theory
Sterotypes
Laws
41. 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.
Schizophrenia
Ascribed Status
Transference
Sensitive Development Period
42. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Deviance
Social Solidarity
Physical Anthroplogy
Latent Learning
43. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Antropology
Latent Learning
Social Solidarity
Identity crisis
44. 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.
Mores
Humanistic Psychology
Prejudice
Correlational Research
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
Identity Formation
Cognitive Theory
B.F. Skinner
Biases
46. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Cognitive Theory
Social mobility
Subcultures
Archaeology
47. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Networks
Deindividualism
Group Norms
Cultural Anthroplogy
48. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Secondary Groups
Institutions
Ascribed Status
Social Cognition
49. 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
Deviance
Institutions
Antropology
50. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Ethnocentrism
Sensitive Development Period
Positive Sanctions
Socialization