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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Social Solidarity
Cultural Anthroplogy
Physical Anthroplogy
Erik Erickson
2. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Conflict
Serial-Position Effect
Sensitive Development Period
Split Brain
3. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Conflict
Cultural Diffusion
Identity crisis
Latent Learning
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.
Multicultural diversity
Norms
Values
Primary Groups
5. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Social Cognition
Archaeology
Networks
Identity Formation
6. 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.
Cultural Relativity
Mores
Cultural Diffusion
Institutions
7. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Sterotypes
Deindividualism
Social Stratification
Reactionary Groups
8. 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.
Utopias
Split Brain
Positive Sanctions
Perception
9. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Habituation
Multicultural diversity
Major Depressive Disorder
Biases
10. 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
Sigmund Freud
Institutions
Socialization
Erik Erickson
11. 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.
Behavioral Psychology
Norms
Deviance
Culture Clash
12. 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
Prosocial Behavior
Cultural Relativity
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Social Stratification
13. 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
Classical Conditioning
Perception
Serial-Position Effect
14. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Ideals
Humanistic Psychology
Dissociative Identity Disorder
15. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Correlational Research
Dominant Cultures
Transference
16. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Humanistic Psychology
Institutions
Archaeology
Antropology
17. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Networks
Conformity
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Behavioral Psychology
18. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Abnormal Psychology
Perception
Enculturation
Pluralistic Ignorance
19. 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 Reinforcement
Ivan Pavlov
Deviance
Pluralistic Ignorance
20. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Jean Piaget
Carl Jung
Archaeology
Role
21. 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
Punishment
Negative Reinforcement
Positive Sanctions
22. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Cultural Relativity
Cultural Anthroplogy
Cognitive Theory
Laws
23. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Biases
Status
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Classical Conditioning
24. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Classical Conditioning
Humanistic Psychology
Dominant Cultures
Sterotypes
25. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Sigmund Freud
Social Cognition
Identity crisis
26. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Physical Anthroplogy
Cultural Relativity
Culture Clash
Negative Sanctions
27. 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
Pluralistic Ignorance
Biases
Group Norms
Positive Sanctions
28. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Archaeology
Ethnocentrism
Punishment
Dominant Cultures
29. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Latent Learning
Secondary Groups
Schizophrenia
Social Solidarity
30. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Behavioral Psychology
Archaeology
Abnormal Psychology
Ivan Pavlov
31. 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.
Humanistic Psychology
Sensitive Development Period
Beliefs
Split Brain
32. 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.
Cultural Relativity
Prosocial Behavior
Social Stratification
Conformity
33. 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.
Abnormal Psychology
Group Norms
Folkways
Split Brain
34. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Group
Classical Conditioning
Folkways
Role
35. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Classical Conditioning
Cognitive Theory
Conflict
Values
36. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Cultural Relativity
Identity Formation
Identity crisis
Secondary Groups
37. 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
Carl Jung
Social Cognition
Values
38. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Cultural Diffusion
Dominant Cultures
Biases
Sigmund Freud
39. 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
Sensitive Development Period
Punishment
Social Stratification
Major Depressive Disorder
40. 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
Social Stratification
Sterotypes
Sigmund Freud
Prejudice
41. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Group Norms
Ethnocentrism
Prosocial Behavior
Beliefs
42. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Sterotypes
Cultural Relativity
Cultural Anthroplogy
Social Stratification
43. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Pluralism
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Behavioral Psychology
44. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Antropology
Social mobility
Secondary Groups
Paranoid Personality Disorder
45. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Identity crisis
Archaeology
Social Stratification
Folkways
46. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)
Identity crisis
Erik Erickson
Utopias
Secondary Groups
47. 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.
Utopias
Cultural Anthroplogy
Identity crisis
Biases
48. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Antropology
Dominant Cultures
Major Depressive Disorder
Transference
49. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Prejudice
Negative Reinforcement
Folkways
Biases
50. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Correlational Research
Dominant Cultures
Subcultures
Antropology