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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. 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.
Biases
Social mobility
Social Solidarity
Ethnocentrism
2. 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.
Split Brain
Correlational Research
Ideals
Cultural Anthroplogy
3. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Laws
Ascribed Status
Archaeology
Utopias
4. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Punishment
Schizophrenia
Laws
Prejudice
5. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Split Brain
Cultural Diffusion
Cultural Anthroplogy
Multicultural diversity
6. 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.
Biases
Subcultures
Prejudice
Jean Piaget
7. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Identity crisis
Group Norms
Perception
Cultural Diffusion
8. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Social Solidarity
Group
Reactionary Groups
Role
9. 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.
Prosocial Behavior
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Ascribed Status
Carl Jung
10. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Habituation
Correlational Research
Mores
Cognitive Theory
11. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Humanistic Psychology
Dominant Cultures
Schizophrenia
12. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Networks
Reactionary Groups
Major Depressive Disorder
Antropology
13. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Negative Sanctions
Prosocial Behavior
Conformity
14. 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
Biases
Serial-Position Effect
Identity Formation
Prejudice
15. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Secondary Groups
Social Cognition
Sigmund Freud
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
16. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Antropology
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Relativity
Classical Conditioning
17. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Cultural Diffusion
Social Cognition
Physical Anthroplogy
Primary Groups
18. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Prosocial Behavior
Utopias
Status
Norms
19. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Identity crisis
Ivan Pavlov
Ethnocentrism
Sensitive Development Period
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.
Laws
Social mobility
Reactionary Groups
Biases
21. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Positive Sanctions
Latent Learning
Networks
Prosocial Behavior
22. 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.
Ideals
B.F. Skinner
Sensitive Development Period
Socialization
23. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Carl Jung
Multicultural diversity
Utopias
Schizophrenia
24. 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
Abnormal Psychology
B.F. Skinner
Social mobility
25. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Deviance
Culture Clash
Role
Multicultural diversity
26. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Social Solidarity
Identity crisis
Beliefs
Mores
27. 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
Cultural Relativity
Archaeology
Sensitive Development Period
28. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Archaeology
Folkways
Erik Erickson
Multicultural diversity
29. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth
Humanistic Psychology
Positive Sanctions
Social Cognition
Cultural Diffusion
30. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Enculturation
Negative Reinforcement
Beliefs
Institutions
31. 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
Dominant Cultures
Major Depressive Disorder
Positive Sanctions
Pluralism
32. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Behavioral Psychology
Humanistic Psychology
Dominant Cultures
Cultural Relativity
33. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Culture Clash
Sterotypes
Institutions
Positive Sanctions
34. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Negative Sanctions
Antropology
Ethnocentrism
Group
35. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Conformity
Pluralistic Ignorance
Negative Reinforcement
36. 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.
Culture Clash
Norms
Antropology
Biases
37. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)
Archaeology
Conflict
Conflict
Erik Erickson
38. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Status
Beliefs
Deviance
Multicultural diversity
39. 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.
Habituation
Erik Erickson
Cultural Anthroplogy
Cultural Relativity
40. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Ethnocentrism
Latent Learning
Latent Learning
Networks
41. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Subcultures
Ethnocentrism
Group Norms
42. 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.
Reactionary Groups
Institutions
Negative Reinforcement
Behavioral Psychology
43. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Erik Erickson
Major Depressive Disorder
Values
Physical Anthroplogy
44. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Sterotypes
Major Depressive Disorder
Group
Deindividualism
45. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Prejudice
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Social Stratification
Cultural Relativity
46. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Values
Cultural Anthroplogy
Identity crisis
Abnormal Psychology
47. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Mores
Ascribed Status
Beliefs
Secondary Groups
48. 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
Deindividualism
Antropology
Behavioral Psychology
Sigmund Freud
49. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Values
Social Solidarity
Social Stratification
50. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Multicultural diversity
Jean Piaget
Archaeology
Cognitive Theory