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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. 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
Norms
Social Stratification
Correlational Research
2. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Social mobility
Conflict
Perception
Dissociative Identity Disorder
3. 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.
Mores
Sterotypes
Jean Piaget
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
4. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Dominant Cultures
Networks
Multicultural diversity
Classical Conditioning
5. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Folkways
Sterotypes
Perception
Ascribed Status
6. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Utopias
Humanistic Psychology
Identity crisis
Deviance
7. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Ideals
Subcultures
Socialization
Status
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
Culture Clash
Serial-Position Effect
Social Cognition
Social Stratification
9. Pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that everything we do is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments. He is famous for use of his operant conditioning aparatus which he used to study schedules of reinforcement on pidgeons a
Laws
Paranoid Personality Disorder
B.F. Skinner
Utopias
10. 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.
Prosocial Behavior
Sensitive Development Period
Ideals
Laws
11. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Utopias
Serial-Position Effect
Group
Sigmund Freud
12. 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'.
Reactionary Groups
Carl Jung
Identity crisis
Social mobility
13. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Serial-Position Effect
Status
Social Cognition
Positive Sanctions
14. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Behavioral Psychology
Socialization
Deindividualism
Abnormal Psychology
15. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Prosocial Behavior
Identity crisis
Values
Carl Jung
16. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Secondary Groups
Role
Multicultural diversity
Cognitive Theory
17. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Behavioral Psychology
Ascribed Status
Institutions
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
18. 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.
Utopias
Pluralistic Ignorance
Beliefs
Correlational Research
19. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Humanistic Psychology
Pluralism
Sterotypes
Positive Sanctions
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
Major Depressive Disorder
Norms
Perception
Paranoid Personality Disorder
21. 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
Social Solidarity
Sigmund Freud
Ivan Pavlov
22. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Beliefs
Deviance
Sterotypes
Social Solidarity
23. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Correlational Research
Biases
Primary Groups
Mores
24. 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
Group
Enculturation
Social Stratification
Socialization
25. 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
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Social Solidarity
Erik Erickson
26. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)
Erik Erickson
Humanistic Psychology
Cultural Anthroplogy
Latent Learning
27. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Cultural Diffusion
Social Stratification
Perception
Culture Clash
28. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Conflict
Reactionary Groups
Prejudice
Abnormal Psychology
29. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Punishment
B.F. Skinner
Classical Conditioning
Behavioral Psychology
30. 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.
Correlational Research
Institutions
Status
Ethnocentrism
31. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Sterotypes
Culture Clash
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Erik Erickson
32. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Beliefs
Prejudice
Norms
Pluralism
33. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Major Depressive Disorder
Socialization
Enculturation
Secondary Groups
34. 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
Major Depressive Disorder
Physical Anthroplogy
Cultural Anthroplogy
Ethnocentrism
35. 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.
Schizophrenia
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Social mobility
Jean Piaget
36. 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
Cultural Anthroplogy
Serial-Position Effect
Schizophrenia
Prosocial Behavior
37. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Serial-Position Effect
Multicultural diversity
Schizophrenia
Deviance
38. 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
Group
Identity Formation
Serial-Position Effect
Socialization
39. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Biases
Ideals
Conflict
Multicultural diversity
40. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Major Depressive Disorder
Deviance
Primary Groups
Negative Sanctions
41. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Enculturation
Cultural Anthroplogy
Schizophrenia
42. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Ideals
Networks
Subcultures
Antropology
43. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Cultural Diffusion
Socialization
Mores
Latent Learning
44. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Negative Reinforcement
Habituation
Conformity
Identity crisis
45. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Conflict
Values
Deviance
Secondary Groups
46. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Sterotypes
Folkways
Beliefs
Punishment
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
Status
Positive Sanctions
Norms
Split Brain
48. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Classical Conditioning
Dominant Cultures
Group
Identity Formation
49. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Enculturation
Mores
Sigmund Freud
Negative Reinforcement
50. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Behavioral Psychology
Punishment
Folkways
Group
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