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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Status
Prosocial Behavior
Ascribed Status
Paranoid Personality Disorder
2. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Biases
Enculturation
Habituation
Cultural Relativity
3. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Carl Jung
Subcultures
Cultural Anthroplogy
Multicultural diversity
4. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Positive Sanctions
Pluralistic Ignorance
Values
Multicultural diversity
5. 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
Pluralistic Ignorance
Cultural Relativity
Biases
6. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Humanistic Psychology
Socialization
Negative Sanctions
Ascribed Status
7. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Negative Reinforcement
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Status
Pluralism
8. 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.
Cultural Relativity
Status
Sensitive Development Period
Negative Reinforcement
9. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Group Norms
Identity Formation
Folkways
Enculturation
10. 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
Deviance
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Social Stratification
11. 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'.
Carl Jung
Social Stratification
Reactionary Groups
Cultural Relativity
12. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Schizophrenia
Institutions
Transference
Habituation
13. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.
Social mobility
Latent Learning
B.F. Skinner
Positive Sanctions
14. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Conflict
Folkways
Laws
Cognitive Theory
15. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Secondary Groups
Primary Groups
Sterotypes
Socialization
16. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Institutions
Socialization
Habituation
Punishment
17. 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.
Behavioral Psychology
Norms
Culture Clash
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
18. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Group
Beliefs
Pluralism
19. 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
Group
Habituation
20. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Reactionary Groups
Social Solidarity
Perception
Paranoid Personality Disorder
21. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Cognitive Theory
Utopias
Schizophrenia
Sigmund Freud
22. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Physical Anthroplogy
Jean Piaget
Abnormal Psychology
Subcultures
23. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Behavioral Psychology
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Humanistic Psychology
Ivan Pavlov
24. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Social Cognition
Punishment
Laws
Secondary Groups
25. 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.
Primary Groups
Negative Sanctions
Reactionary Groups
Prejudice
26. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Physical Anthroplogy
Perception
Behavioral Psychology
Reactionary Groups
27. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Archaeology
Reactionary Groups
Laws
Punishment
28. 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
Utopias
B.F. Skinner
Ideals
29. 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'.
Group Norms
Social mobility
Reactionary Groups
Sensitive Development Period
30. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Social Stratification
Prosocial Behavior
Abnormal Psychology
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
31. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Carl Jung
Socialization
Sensitive Development Period
Pluralistic Ignorance
32. 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.
Major Depressive Disorder
Folkways
Humanistic Psychology
Sensitive Development Period
33. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Perception
B.F. Skinner
Conformity
B.F. Skinner
34. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Identity crisis
Pluralistic Ignorance
Negative Reinforcement
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
35. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Laws
Jean Piaget
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
36. 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
Serial-Position Effect
Culture Clash
Erik Erickson
Dominant Cultures
37. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Physical Anthroplogy
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Multicultural diversity
Laws
38. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Cultural Diffusion
Schizophrenia
Social mobility
Latent Learning
39. 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
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Cultural Diffusion
Conformity
B.F. Skinner
40. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Networks
Perception
Transference
Sensitive Development Period
41. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Socialization
Antropology
Archaeology
Utopias
42. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Group
Deindividualism
Cultural Relativity
Habituation
43. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Folkways
Group Norms
Behavioral Psychology
Laws
44. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Enculturation
Ivan Pavlov
Beliefs
Paranoid Personality Disorder
45. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov
Negative Sanctions
Culture Clash
Erik Erickson
46. 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
Values
Social Stratification
Deindividualism
Reactionary Groups
47. 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.
Subcultures
Biases
Cultural Anthroplogy
Perception
48. 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
Norms
Antropology
Serial-Position Effect
Carl Jung
49. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Mores
Norms
Pluralistic Ignorance
Deindividualism
50. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Sigmund Freud
Split Brain
Antropology
Subcultures