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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Punishment
Antropology
Prosocial Behavior
Jean Piaget
2. 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.
Positive Sanctions
Deindividualism
Status
Split Brain
3. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Punishment
Enculturation
B.F. Skinner
Cognitive Theory
4. 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
Sterotypes
Negative Reinforcement
5. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Ascribed Status
Sensitive Development Period
Negative Reinforcement
Pluralistic Ignorance
6. 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
Social mobility
Dominant Cultures
Prejudice
7. 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.
Enculturation
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Social Stratification
Group Norms
8. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Ideals
Conformity
Folkways
Cultural Diffusion
9. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Habituation
Beliefs
Transference
Dominant Cultures
10. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Mores
Negative Sanctions
Deviance
Carl Jung
11. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Humanistic Psychology
Sensitive Development Period
Ascribed Status
Role
12. 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
Networks
Primary Groups
Correlational Research
13. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Negative Reinforcement
Perception
Physical Anthroplogy
Archaeology
14. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Enculturation
Cultural Diffusion
Pluralism
15. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Group Norms
Conformity
Cultural Relativity
Cultural Anthroplogy
16. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Antropology
Primary Groups
Ascribed Status
Norms
17. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Classical Conditioning
Socialization
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Mores
18. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Classical Conditioning
Positive Sanctions
Social mobility
Values
19. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Beliefs
Networks
Sigmund Freud
Multicultural diversity
20. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Positive Sanctions
Subcultures
Sensitive Development Period
Cultural Diffusion
21. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Humanistic Psychology
Pluralism
Deindividualism
Prejudice
22. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Group
Networks
Secondary Groups
Enculturation
23. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Utopias
Sterotypes
Perception
Prosocial Behavior
24. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Utopias
B.F. Skinner
Secondary Groups
25. 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.
Humanistic Psychology
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Beliefs
Cultural Anthroplogy
26. 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
Institutions
Ascribed Status
Major Depressive Disorder
Social Stratification
27. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Behavioral Psychology
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
B.F. Skinner
Networks
28. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Sensitive Development Period
Folkways
Ethnocentrism
29. 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.
Ivan Pavlov
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Ideals
Social Stratification
30. 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.
Folkways
Negative Reinforcement
Punishment
Group Norms
31. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Identity crisis
Folkways
Classical Conditioning
Laws
32. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Serial-Position Effect
Behavioral Psychology
Sterotypes
Punishment
33. 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.
Correlational Research
Prejudice
Multicultural diversity
Deindividualism
34. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Subcultures
Networks
Ivan Pavlov
Identity Formation
35. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.
Dominant Cultures
Social mobility
Secondary Groups
Role
36. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Networks
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Archaeology
Social Cognition
37. 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.
Conflict
Classical Conditioning
Cognitive Theory
Prejudice
38. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Habituation
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Status
Transference
39. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Biases
Latent Learning
B.F. Skinner
Networks
40. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Identity Formation
Sterotypes
Conflict
Biases
41. 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
Cultural Relativity
Latent Learning
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
42. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Serial-Position Effect
Major Depressive Disorder
Values
Conflict
43. 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.
Primary Groups
Classical Conditioning
Carl Jung
Laws
44. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Serial-Position Effect
Deindividualism
Correlational Research
Punishment
45. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Cognitive Theory
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Dominant Cultures
Archaeology
46. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)
Erik Erickson
Group
Negative Sanctions
Institutions
47. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Cognitive Theory
Deviance
Social mobility
Pluralism
48. 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.
Classical Conditioning
Multicultural diversity
Split Brain
Primary Groups
49. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Humanistic Psychology
Conflict
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Role
50. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Identity crisis
Identity Formation
Group
Laws
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