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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Abnormal Psychology
Jean Piaget
Ascribed Status
Behavioral Psychology
2. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Multicultural diversity
Prosocial Behavior
Role
Latent Learning
3. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Cultural Diffusion
Serial-Position Effect
Group
4. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Behavioral Psychology
Norms
Negative Reinforcement
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
5. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Folkways
Schizophrenia
Sigmund Freud
Jean Piaget
6. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Status
Role
Major Depressive Disorder
Dominant Cultures
7. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Enculturation
Erik Erickson
Pluralistic Ignorance
Jean Piaget
8. 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.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Culture Clash
Sigmund Freud
Cultural Anthroplogy
9. 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
Culture Clash
Utopias
Erik Erickson
Identity Formation
10. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Sigmund Freud
Values
Negative Sanctions
Primary Groups
11. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Beliefs
Group Norms
Social Cognition
Pluralism
12. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Perception
Folkways
Sterotypes
Punishment
13. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Negative Sanctions
Norms
14. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Cultural Diffusion
Laws
Group
Mores
15. 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
Erik Erickson
Cultural Relativity
Latent Learning
Social Stratification
16. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Norms
Social Stratification
Pluralism
Negative Sanctions
17. 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.
Ivan Pavlov
Networks
Correlational Research
Prosocial Behavior
18. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Ascribed Status
Utopias
Major Depressive Disorder
Positive Sanctions
19. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Prosocial Behavior
Utopias
Schizophrenia
Social mobility
20. 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
Group Norms
Ideals
Group
Norms
21. 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
Sensitive Development Period
Conflict
Negative Reinforcement
22. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Social Solidarity
Physical Anthroplogy
Mores
Deindividualism
23. 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.
Culture Clash
Ideals
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Ethnocentrism
24. 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
Dominant Cultures
Sterotypes
Sterotypes
25. Are rules that are designed to govern the behavior of the members. Are intended to integrate the actions of the group members. Are to reflect the appropriate behavior - attitudes - and perceptions of the the members. 'Conformity and compliance are tw
Group Norms
Correlational Research
Conflict
Multicultural diversity
26. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Archaeology
Split Brain
Schizophrenia
Sensitive Development Period
27. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
B.F. Skinner
Abnormal Psychology
Latent Learning
Identity crisis
28. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Punishment
Prosocial Behavior
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Secondary Groups
29. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Habituation
Prosocial Behavior
Pluralistic Ignorance
30. 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
Enculturation
Prejudice
Carl Jung
Reactionary Groups
31. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Dominant Cultures
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Ascribed Status
Laws
32. 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.
Negative Reinforcement
Laws
Split Brain
Sigmund Freud
33. 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.
Conformity
Negative Reinforcement
Socialization
Ivan Pavlov
34. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Ivan Pavlov
Prosocial Behavior
Prosocial Behavior
Deviance
35. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Perception
Ivan Pavlov
Behavioral Psychology
Social Stratification
36. 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
Values
Carl Jung
Culture Clash
Split Brain
37. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Split Brain
Socialization
Perception
Norms
38. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Serial-Position Effect
Socialization
Latent Learning
Social Solidarity
39. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Punishment
Identity crisis
Latent Learning
Culture Clash
40. 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
Correlational Research
Identity Formation
Conformity
41. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Negative Reinforcement
Prejudice
Cultural Anthroplogy
Laws
42. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Carl Jung
Major Depressive Disorder
Group
Punishment
43. 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
Antropology
Negative Sanctions
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
44. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Humanistic Psychology
Prosocial Behavior
Classical Conditioning
Biases
45. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Cultural Diffusion
Habituation
Status
Socialization
46. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Abnormal Psychology
Values
Biases
Negative Reinforcement
47. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Ethnocentrism
Social mobility
Habituation
Abnormal Psychology
48. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Mores
Cultural Anthroplogy
Physical Anthroplogy
Values
49. 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.
Ascribed Status
Laws
Primary Groups
Conflict
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 Stratification
Perception
Ethnocentrism
Social mobility