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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Schizophrenia
Beliefs
Archaeology
Reactionary Groups
2. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Ascribed Status
Transference
Ideals
Sigmund Freud
3. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Beliefs
Cognitive Theory
Social Stratification
Values
4. 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.
Schizophrenia
Primary Groups
Cultural Diffusion
Group
5. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Cultural Diffusion
Secondary Groups
Social Stratification
Biases
6. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Latent Learning
Cultural Relativity
Antropology
Culture Clash
7. 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
Laws
Identity Formation
Classical Conditioning
Correlational Research
8. 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
Folkways
Habituation
Ivan Pavlov
Social Stratification
9. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Biases
Deviance
Major Depressive Disorder
Values
10. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Pluralism
Folkways
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Erik Erickson
11. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Norms
Conformity
Culture Clash
Perception
12. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Ascribed Status
Ivan Pavlov
Deindividualism
Serial-Position Effect
13. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Subcultures
Role
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Utopias
14. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Social Cognition
Social Stratification
Social Solidarity
Ascribed Status
15. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Split Brain
Multicultural diversity
Negative Reinforcement
Conformity
16. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Laws
Latent Learning
Habituation
Negative Reinforcement
17. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Punishment
Physical Anthroplogy
Abnormal Psychology
Multicultural diversity
18. 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.
Secondary Groups
Social Stratification
Sensitive Development Period
Pluralism
19. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Prosocial Behavior
Humanistic Psychology
Jean Piaget
Identity Formation
20. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Habituation
Ivan Pavlov
Major Depressive Disorder
Pluralistic Ignorance
21. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Carl Jung
Ascribed Status
Cultural Diffusion
22. 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
Networks
Sterotypes
Sigmund Freud
Ascribed Status
23. 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.
Classical Conditioning
Habituation
Cultural Relativity
Culture Clash
24. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Utopias
Major Depressive Disorder
Social Cognition
Sigmund Freud
25. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Subcultures
Perception
Utopias
Networks
26. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Dominant Cultures
Archaeology
Physical Anthroplogy
B.F. Skinner
27. 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.
Social mobility
Institutions
Split Brain
Culture Clash
28. 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
Group
Social Solidarity
Carl Jung
Erik Erickson
29. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Sensitive Development Period
Physical Anthroplogy
Primary Groups
Mores
30. 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
Role
Habituation
Conformity
Identity Formation
31. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Negative Reinforcement
Positive Sanctions
Latent Learning
Prosocial Behavior
32. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Perception
Dominant Cultures
Status
Laws
33. 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
Habituation
Subcultures
Classical Conditioning
Norms
34. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Social Stratification
Ascribed Status
Correlational Research
Utopias
35. 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
Conflict
Negative Reinforcement
Serial-Position Effect
Erik Erickson
36. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Perception
Ethnocentrism
Folkways
B.F. Skinner
37. 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
Values
Negative Reinforcement
Socialization
Social Stratification
38. 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.
Humanistic Psychology
Split Brain
Antropology
Behavioral Psychology
39. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Folkways
Archaeology
Primary Groups
40. 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
Perception
Humanistic Psychology
Punishment
41. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Jean Piaget
Classical Conditioning
Institutions
Habituation
42. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Correlational Research
Conflict
Humanistic Psychology
43. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Jean Piaget
Split Brain
Transference
Classical Conditioning
44. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Mores
Networks
Reactionary Groups
Secondary Groups
45. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Perception
Primary Groups
Humanistic Psychology
Enculturation
46. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Conflict
Negative Sanctions
Transference
47. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Negative Sanctions
Transference
Identity crisis
Folkways
48. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Deindividualism
Norms
Jean Piaget
Mores
49. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Pluralism
Role
Transference
Humanistic Psychology
50. 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.
Subcultures
Ideals
Laws
Multicultural diversity