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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Norms
Socialization
Social Solidarity
2. 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
Culture Clash
Sigmund Freud
Prejudice
3. 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
Primary Groups
Behavioral Psychology
Social Stratification
Social mobility
4. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Status
Positive Sanctions
Norms
Cultural Relativity
5. 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
Cultural Relativity
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Pluralistic Ignorance
6. 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
Negative Reinforcement
Status
Social Stratification
Cultural Anthroplogy
7. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Major Depressive Disorder
Identity Formation
Laws
Social Stratification
8. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Ivan Pavlov
Prosocial Behavior
Values
Antropology
9. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Schizophrenia
Cultural Relativity
Norms
Social Cognition
10. 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.
Major Depressive Disorder
Enculturation
Sensitive Development Period
Primary Groups
11. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Erik Erickson
Laws
Social mobility
Status
12. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Social mobility
Conflict
Ideals
Folkways
13. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Multicultural diversity
Networks
Pluralistic Ignorance
Primary Groups
14. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Socialization
Transference
Negative Reinforcement
Social mobility
15. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Cultural Relativity
Social Solidarity
Habituation
16. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth
Ivan Pavlov
Humanistic Psychology
Latent Learning
Major Depressive Disorder
17. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Social Stratification
Pluralism
Status
Subcultures
18. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Pluralism
Correlational Research
Positive Sanctions
Habituation
19. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Transference
Identity crisis
Cognitive Theory
Identity Formation
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.
Correlational Research
Jean Piaget
Role
Biases
21. 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
Transference
Serial-Position Effect
Social Stratification
Erik Erickson
22. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Negative Sanctions
Group
Secondary Groups
Humanistic Psychology
23. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Erik Erickson
Perception
Latent Learning
Role
24. 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.
Abnormal Psychology
Group
Identity Formation
Biases
25. 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.
Deviance
Pluralistic Ignorance
Pluralistic Ignorance
Sensitive Development Period
26. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Sterotypes
Social Stratification
Subcultures
Secondary Groups
27. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Latent Learning
Status
Antropology
Primary Groups
28. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Deindividualism
Socialization
Negative Sanctions
Serial-Position Effect
29. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Habituation
Positive Sanctions
Institutions
Norms
30. 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.
Ethnocentrism
Sensitive Development Period
Pluralistic Ignorance
Ideals
31. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Habituation
Prejudice
Social Solidarity
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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.
Utopias
Sensitive Development Period
Identity Formation
Dissociative Identity Disorder
33. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Multicultural diversity
Ideals
Cultural Anthroplogy
Conformity
34. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Behavioral Psychology
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Physical Anthroplogy
Archaeology
35. 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'.
Conformity
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Reactionary Groups
Ascribed Status
36. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Identity Formation
Transference
Ascribed Status
Jean Piaget
37. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Beliefs
Enculturation
Jean Piaget
Subcultures
38. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Subcultures
Cultural Diffusion
Serial-Position Effect
Secondary Groups
39. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Social Stratification
Role
Values
Antropology
40. 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
Jean Piaget
Sensitive Development Period
Norms
Ascribed Status
41. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Cultural Diffusion
Cultural Diffusion
Conformity
Mores
42. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Physical Anthroplogy
Multicultural diversity
Ascribed Status
43. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Latent Learning
Social Stratification
Negative Sanctions
Dominant Cultures
44. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth
Enculturation
Humanistic Psychology
Culture Clash
Cognitive Theory
45. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Ideals
Institutions
Cultural Diffusion
Conflict
46. 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.
Prosocial Behavior
Institutions
Values
Perception
47. 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.
Ivan Pavlov
Dominant Cultures
Perception
Primary Groups
48. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Beliefs
Prosocial Behavior
Antropology
Major Depressive Disorder
49. 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 Norms
Social Stratification
Identity Formation
Prejudice
50. 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
Punishment
Group
Humanistic Psychology
Norms