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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Pluralistic Ignorance
Group
Negative Reinforcement
Perception
2. 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.
Biases
Dominant Cultures
Transference
Deindividualism
3. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Classical Conditioning
Socialization
Dominant Cultures
Ethnocentrism
4. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Dominant Cultures
Pluralism
Prejudice
5. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Pluralism
Negative Reinforcement
Habituation
Reactionary Groups
6. 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
Culture Clash
Serial-Position Effect
Major Depressive Disorder
Negative Reinforcement
7. 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.
Ideals
Humanistic Psychology
Abnormal Psychology
Prejudice
8. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Culture Clash
Norms
Institutions
Enculturation
9. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Networks
Positive Sanctions
Antropology
10. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Correlational Research
Abnormal Psychology
Folkways
B.F. Skinner
11. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Negative Sanctions
Cultural Anthroplogy
Social Cognition
Paranoid Personality Disorder
12. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Social mobility
Archaeology
Values
Ascribed Status
13. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Cultural Diffusion
Prosocial Behavior
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Latent Learning
14. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Pluralism
Folkways
Behavioral Psychology
Culture Clash
15. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Social Stratification
Networks
Perception
Humanistic Psychology
16. 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
Norms
Conformity
Social Stratification
Punishment
17. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Conflict
Identity Formation
Utopias
Status
18. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Ivan Pavlov
Abnormal Psychology
Utopias
Identity crisis
19. 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'.
Correlational Research
Reactionary Groups
Punishment
Multicultural diversity
20. 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.
Schizophrenia
Folkways
Ideals
Physical Anthroplogy
21. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Negative Sanctions
Mores
Culture Clash
Jean Piaget
22. 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.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Abnormal Psychology
Social mobility
23. 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 Sanctions
Subcultures
Prosocial Behavior
Negative Reinforcement
24. 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.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Habituation
Deindividualism
Split Brain
25. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Subcultures
Cultural Anthroplogy
Beliefs
Latent Learning
26. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Jean Piaget
Pluralistic Ignorance
Cultural Anthroplogy
Ideals
27. 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.
Prejudice
Biases
Erik Erickson
Socialization
28. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Sterotypes
Role
Folkways
Reactionary Groups
29. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Ivan Pavlov
Institutions
Socialization
Sigmund Freud
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
Behavioral Psychology
Values
Carl Jung
Identity crisis
31. 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
Ethnocentrism
Pluralistic Ignorance
Sterotypes
32. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Latent Learning
Utopias
Culture Clash
Perception
33. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Pluralism
Utopias
Punishment
Archaeology
34. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Multicultural diversity
Institutions
Enculturation
Beliefs
35. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Norms
Reactionary Groups
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Humanistic Psychology
36. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Positive Sanctions
Identity crisis
Humanistic Psychology
Ascribed Status
37. 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.
Split Brain
Ethnocentrism
Classical Conditioning
B.F. Skinner
38. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Institutions
Secondary Groups
Transference
Dominant Cultures
39. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Abnormal Psychology
Dominant Cultures
Culture Clash
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
Social Solidarity
Social Stratification
Behavioral Psychology
Humanistic Psychology
41. 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
Prosocial Behavior
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Archaeology
42. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Antropology
Physical Anthroplogy
Correlational Research
Group
43. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Enculturation
Cognitive Theory
Behavioral Psychology
Status
44. 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.
Habituation
Split Brain
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Transference
45. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Deindividualism
Archaeology
Dominant Cultures
Reactionary Groups
46. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Erik Erickson
Antropology
Mores
Sterotypes
47. 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
Erik Erickson
Norms
Social Solidarity
Reactionary Groups
48. 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
Punishment
Correlational Research
Status
49. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Social mobility
Ideals
Prejudice
50. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Deviance
Primary Groups
Carl Jung
Correlational Research