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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. 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
Split Brain
Values
Humanistic Psychology
Major Depressive Disorder
2. 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.
Perception
Deindividualism
Primary Groups
Networks
3. 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
Reactionary Groups
Prejudice
Sigmund Freud
Socialization
4. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Identity Formation
Carl Jung
Laws
Dissociative Identity Disorder
5. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Socialization
Sigmund Freud
Utopias
Ivan Pavlov
6. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Conflict
Latent Learning
Mores
7. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth
Subcultures
Schizophrenia
Humanistic Psychology
Enculturation
8. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Antropology
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Split Brain
Habituation
9. 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
Erik Erickson
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Serial-Position Effect
Conflict
10. 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
Secondary Groups
Major Depressive Disorder
Identity Formation
Primary Groups
11. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Archaeology
Reactionary Groups
Beliefs
Folkways
12. 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.
Reactionary Groups
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Ethnocentrism
Social Stratification
13. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Archaeology
Socialization
Secondary Groups
Pluralistic Ignorance
14. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Cultural Relativity
Schizophrenia
Beliefs
Biases
15. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Ideals
Negative Sanctions
Physical Anthroplogy
Jean Piaget
16. 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.
Sterotypes
Cultural Relativity
Negative Reinforcement
Abnormal Psychology
17. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Social Stratification
Status
Social Solidarity
Behavioral Psychology
18. 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.
Social Cognition
Ideals
Enculturation
Positive Sanctions
19. 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.
Group
Subcultures
Ascribed Status
Split Brain
20. 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
Perception
Social Cognition
Identity Formation
Split Brain
21. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
B.F. Skinner
Physical Anthroplogy
Socialization
Sensitive Development Period
22. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Sterotypes
Social Cognition
Social Solidarity
23. 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
Biases
Subcultures
Utopias
24. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Ethnocentrism
Social Solidarity
Secondary Groups
Enculturation
25. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.
Mores
Major Depressive Disorder
Social mobility
Utopias
26. 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.
Jean Piaget
Social Stratification
Biases
Prejudice
27. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Negative Reinforcement
Prejudice
Habituation
Latent Learning
28. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Ethnocentrism
Folkways
Deindividualism
Prosocial Behavior
29. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Social Stratification
Latent Learning
Negative Sanctions
Dominant Cultures
30. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Sterotypes
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Biases
Split Brain
31. 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
Identity crisis
Role
Correlational Research
32. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Social Solidarity
Negative Sanctions
Multicultural diversity
Utopias
33. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Ethnocentrism
Status
Mores
Prejudice
34. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Social Stratification
Humanistic Psychology
Latent Learning
Socialization
35. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Perception
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Jean Piaget
Group
36. 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
B.F. Skinner
Sensitive Development Period
Beliefs
37. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Classical Conditioning
Social mobility
Deindividualism
Norms
38. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Prosocial Behavior
Beliefs
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Negative Sanctions
39. 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.
Enculturation
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Prejudice
Sigmund Freud
40. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Carl Jung
Conformity
Pluralism
Erik Erickson
41. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Deviance
Folkways
Punishment
Reactionary Groups
42. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Conformity
Habituation
Erik Erickson
43. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Cognitive Theory
Primary Groups
Social Solidarity
Ascribed Status
44. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Perception
Values
Secondary Groups
Positive Sanctions
45. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Abnormal Psychology
Behavioral Psychology
Social mobility
Antropology
46. 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
Culture Clash
Carl Jung
Schizophrenia
Social Cognition
47. 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.
Positive Sanctions
Cultural Relativity
Carl Jung
Perception
48. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Conformity
Beliefs
Positive Sanctions
Dissociative Identity Disorder
49. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
B.F. Skinner
Enculturation
Sigmund Freud
Latent Learning
50. 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
Social Solidarity
Social Stratification
Utopias
Social mobility